Question 33
EasyOriginal questionSeven neighbours, Mehul, Nirmala, Oinam, Pallavi, Rakesh, Saira and Tushar, sit around a circular table with seven equally spaced seats, all facing the centre.
1. Pallavi sits second to the left of Mehul.
2. Rakesh sits third to the left of Pallavi.
3. Oinam sits next to both Mehul and Rakesh.
4. Saira sits immediately to the right of Pallavi.
5. Nirmala sits immediately to the right of Rakesh.
At the seven-seat table, who sits between Mehul and Pallavi on the shorter side?
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Correct answer: A
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 Mehul: Mehul, _, Pallavi (second to his left). Rakesh is three seats clockwise from Pallavi: the sixth seat. Oinam, next to both Mehul and Rakesh, is the seventh.
Saira, on Pallavi's right, is the seat anticlockwise of Pallavi: second. Nirmala, on Rakesh's right, is the seat anticlockwise of Rakesh: fifth. Tushar is fourth.
Clockwise from Mehul: Mehul, Saira, Pallavi, Tushar, Nirmala, Rakesh, Oinam.
Mehul is first and Pallavi third; on the shorter side the only seat between them is the second, Saira's.
Worth noting
Oinam is on Mehul's other side.
- Concept
- Reading a neighbour from a solved circle
- Typical timeTypical
- 45 s
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