Directions: Study the following information carefully to answer the given…
2022
Directions: Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions:
Ten persons- M, N, O, P, Q, T, U, V, W and X sit around a circular table but not necessarily in the same order. Five of them face inside and rest of them face outside. No two consecutive alphabetical named persons sit adjacent to each other. Not more than two neighbours face the same direction.
Two persons sit between W and N. M sits 3rd to the right of N. Immediate neighbour of M face opposite direction to each other. X and V sit immediate left to each other but not an immediate neighbour N. O and P sit 2nd to the right of each other. Immediate neighbours of U face the same direction but not same as U. No one sits between O and X either one of the sides. W and Q face the same direction. X does not face outside.
Which of the following statement is true?
I. Both V and T face the same direction
II. O and T are not an immediate neighbour
III. V sits 3rd to the left of W
- A.
Both I and III
- B.
Only III
- C.
Both II and III
- D.
Only II
- E.
Only I
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: D
Concept
In a circular arrangement with mixed facing, a person's left and right depend on which way they face. For someone facing the centre, their left runs clockwise and their right runs anticlockwise; for someone facing outward the two are swapped. "k-th to the right of P" always means counting k seats in P's own right-hand direction, never a single fixed sense for everyone. The reliable method is: first lock the positions using the order clues (a fixed gap, fixed offsets, forced adjacencies), then resolve every facing using the direction rules, and only then read off any left/right or same-direction claim.
Fixing the positions
Anchor N and place W. Two people sit between W and N, so W occupies the 4th seat from N (a two-seat gap on each side). Independently, M is the 3rd seat to the right of N. These two offsets fix N, W and M as a rigid skeleton on the circle.
Seat the V-X-O block. Nobody sits between O and X on either side, so they are adjacent; X and V are also immediately next to each other; giving the contiguous chain V-X-O. The clue that X and V are not next to N keeps this block off N's two immediate seats, which leaves only one stretch of seats long enough to hold V-X-O without breaking the no-consecutive-alphabet rule.
Place P using O-P. O and P are 2nd to the right of each other, a mutual offset that can only be met on one side of the already-placed V-X-O block; this forces P into the seat adjacent to W. The remaining persons (T, Q, U) then fill the only seats left, and the no-two-consecutive-alphabet-names-adjacent rule rejects every alternative filling but one.
Fixing the directions
With seats fixed, the facing of each person is forced by combining all the direction clues at once:
Exactly five face inside and five outside, and no three neighbours in a row may face the same way.
X faces inside (given), and the two neighbours of M must face opposite ways to each other.
The two neighbours of U face the same way as each other but opposite to U, and W and Q face the same way.
Only one inside/outside pattern satisfies all of these simultaneously without ever putting three like-facing people together.
The single seating that satisfies every clue, read clockwise, is:
Seat order (clockwise) | Facing |
|---|---|
N | inside |
T | inside |
P | outside |
W | outside |
O | inside |
X | inside |
V | outside |
M | outside |
U | inside |
Q | outside |
Reading the three statements
Same-direction check for V and T: read each one's facing from the table and compare them directly.
Neighbour check for O and T: list the two people sitting on either side of O and see whether T is one of them.
Left-count for V relative to W: because W faces outward, count three seats in W's own left-hand direction (the reverse of an inside-facer's) and see whether you land on V.
Result
Carrying out those three checks against the unique seating leaves exactly one statement holding — that O and T are not immediate neighbours — while the other two fail. Hence the correct response is “Only II”.