Five persons are standing in a straight line and facing in the same direction. At one of the extreme end, there is a Doctor and at the other extreme end, there is a Lawyer. A Marketing Officer is standing to the right of a girl. An Author is to the left of the Lawyer. The girl is standing between the Doctor & the Marketing Officer. Counting from the left, determine that the Marketing Officer is at which place in the group?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Third
All five face the same way, so “left” and “right” are the same for all of them. The clues are placed one by one:
The girl stands between the Doctor and the Marketing Officer, and the Marketing Officer is to the right of the girl. So, from left to right, the order is Doctor, girl, Marketing Officer.
The Doctor is at one end and has people to the right, so the Doctor is at the left end (1st) and the Lawyer at the right end (5th).
Taking “between” as next to both of them, the girl is 2nd and the Marketing Officer 3rd.
The Author, to the left of the Lawyer, takes the only place left, the 4th.
Note: The question does not say that the girl stands immediately between the Doctor and the Marketing Officer, so it can be read in two ways:
Next to both — Doctor, girl, Marketing Officer, Author, Lawyer: the Marketing Officer is 3rd, Option (4), the answer given by NTA.
Anywhere between them — Doctor, girl, Author, Marketing Officer, Lawyer, or Doctor, Author, girl, Marketing Officer, Lawyer, also fit every clue, and the Marketing Officer is 4th, Option (1).