Read the data given below and based on it answer the following questions: Six…
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Read the data given below and based on it answer the following questions: Six girls, Pooja, Qimat, Reeti, Shweta, Tejaswini and Vineeta are sitting around a circular table. All of them are facing towards the centre of the circle. Tejaswini is not sitting between Qimat and Shweta but someone else from the group. Pooja sits to the left of Vineeta. Reeti is fourth to the right of Pooja. Who sits exactly between Shweta and Qimat?
- A.
Tejaswini
- B.
Vineeta
- C.
Pooja
- D.
Reeti
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Correct answer: D
In a circular seating arrangement where every person faces the centre of the table, a person's own left hand points in the clockwise direction (as seen from above) and their own right hand points in the counter-clockwise direction, because facing inward reverses the hands relative to an outside observer. So 'to X's left' and 'so many seats to X's right' must always be counted using X's own left and right, never the reader's.
Fix Vineeta's seat at the top of the circle as the reference seat.
Pooja sits to Vineeta's left. For someone facing the centre, 'left' corresponds to the clockwise seat, so Pooja takes the seat immediately clockwise of Vineeta.
Reeti is fourth to the right of Pooja. 'Right' for someone facing the centre is the counter-clockwise direction, so starting at Pooja's seat and counting four seats counter-clockwise passes Vineeta's seat (1st), the seat on Vineeta's other side (2nd), the next seat along (3rd), and lands on the seat directly opposite Vineeta (4th). Reeti therefore sits directly opposite Vineeta.
The three remaining seats - the two seats flanking Reeti, and the seat next to Vineeta on the side away from Pooja - are shared among Qimat, Shweta and Tejaswini.
The clue rules out Tejaswini as the person sitting between Qimat and Shweta. The only pair of seats whose in-between seat is already fixed by the earlier clues is the pair flanking Reeti - whoever sits there has Reeti between them. So Qimat and Shweta must occupy those two flanking seats, leaving Tejaswini the remaining seat next to Vineeta.
Hence the seat exactly between the seats used by Qimat and Shweta is Reeti's seat.
Among the three remaining seats, only the pair flanking Reeti has exactly one seat between them - every other pairing of two of those three seats is either adjacent (no seat between) or has two seats between them. Since the clue requires exactly one person, and not Tejaswini, to sit between Qimat and Shweta, Qimat and Shweta cannot occupy any pairing except the two seats flanking Reeti, leaving Tejaswini the remaining seat next to Vineeta, as shown in the diagram below.
