Each of these questions are based on the information given below : 8 persons…

Concept

In a square-table seating puzzle with two people on each side, translate each relational clue (“X is between Y and Z”, “second to the left of”, “seated opposite”) into a fixed run of seats. Chain the runs together wherever a name repeats across two clues, until the full seating order is fixed, then read the requested relation directly off that completed order.

Application

1. “J is between L and F” gives the run L–J–F.

2. “G is between I and F” gives the run I–G–F. F is common to both runs, so F sits with J on one side and G on the other, joining them into one longer run: L–J–F–G–I.

3. “There is a lady member between F and I” identifies that middle seat as G’s seat, so G is female.

4. “F, a male member, is seated opposite E, a lady member” places E directly across the square from F.

5. “H, a lady member, is second to the left of J” fixes H’s seat two places from J, on the side away from the L–J–F–G–I run.

6. The one seat left over goes to K.

7. Assembling all of this around the square gives the order: K–E–I–G–F–J–L–H, and back to K.

Cross-check

• J sits between L and F — holds.

• G sits between I and F and is female, satisfying the “lady between F and I” clue — holds.

• H sits second to the left of J — holds.

• F (male) sits directly opposite E (female) — holds.

• The three ladies E, G and H are not seated together as one block — G is separated from the E–H corner by the F–J–L run, so this condition holds too.

Going around the corner from E’s seat, the very next seat — occupied by K — is the single seat linking E’s seat to H’s seat, so K is seated between E and H.