Question 38
MediumOriginal questionSix friends, Arun, Bhavya, Chaitra, Dhruv, Elango and Farzana, sit around a circular dinner table. The seats are equally spaced and everyone faces the centre.
1. Arun sits opposite Dhruv.
2. Farzana sits second to the left of Arun.
3. Bhavya sits next to Dhruv.
4. Elango sits immediately to the right of Arun.
Which two of the six diners are immediate neighbours?
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
Facing the centre, a person's left neighbour is the next seat clockwise (seen from above) and the right neighbour is the next seat anticlockwise.
Clockwise from Arun: Arun, _, Farzana (second to his left), Dhruv (opposite), _, _.
Bhavya must be next to Dhruv; the seat before Dhruv is Farzana's, so Bhavya is the seat after him. Elango, on Arun's right, is the last seat. Chaitra takes the second seat.
Clockwise from Arun: Arun, Chaitra, Farzana, Dhruv, Bhavya, Elango.
Bhavya (fifth) and Elango (sixth) are neighbours. Each other pair has someone between them on the shorter side.
Worth noting
Elango and Chaitra both sit next to Arun, but not next to each other.
- Concept
- Identifying neighbours on a circle
- Typical timeTypical
- 80 s
- Your timeYours
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