Directions : Read the following information carefully and answer the questions…
2019
Directions : Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Eight persons R@, R#, R$, R&, R%, R*, R© and RΩ are sitting around a hollow circular table such that R&, R$, R# and RΩ sit on the inner side of the table and the rest are sitting on the outer side of the circular table and they all are facing away from the center. The persons sitting on the inner side of the circular table are sitting just behind the persons sitting on the outer side of the circular table and all are graduated from different universities i.e. HTS, UGI, LPU, HNB, KPJ, UPI, NIT and FPT. All the information is not necessarily in the same order.
The one who is graduated from KPJ sits just behind the one who sits second to the left of the one who is graduated from UPI. RΩ sits just behind the R*. R% who is graduated from UGI sits opposite to the one who sits at the immediate left of R©. R& is not graduated from FPT. The one who is graduated from HTS sits at the immediate left of the one who is graduated from LPU. The one who is graduated from KPJ sits just behind the R©. RΩ sits at the immediate right of R&. The persons who are graduated from FPT and HNB are sitting on the same table and sit opposite to each other. R& sits just behind the one who is graduated from UGI. R$ is not graduated from FPT.
Who among the following is sitting third to the right of the one who is sitting just behind the R©?
- A.
The one who is graduated from KPJ
- B.
R&
- C.
The one who is sitting at the immediate left of R$
- D.
RΩ
- E.
None of these
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: C
Concept
In a hollow-table arrangement, each inner-ring person sits directly behind a fixed outer-ring partner, so "just behind X" pins down one specific seat. With everyone facing away from the centre, "left" and "right" are read along the ring, and in a ring of four people moving three steps in one direction lands on the same seat as one step in the opposite direction. The strategy is: lock the front-back pairs, fix the universities by elimination, then trace the requested seat.
Building the arrangement
Outer ring = R@, R%, R*, R©; inner ring = R&, R$, R#, RΩ. Each inner person is behind exactly one outer person.
RΩ is just behind R*, and R& is just behind R% (UGI). That fixes two of the four front-back pairs.
KPJ is just behind R©, so R©'s inner partner is the KPJ graduate. The two inner partners still free for R© and R@ are R$ and R#; the opposite-clue (R% faces the immediate-left of R©) and "RΩ is the immediate right of R&" fix the ring order so that R$ falls behind R© — hence R$ is the KPJ graduate and R# is the inner partner of R@.
Universities by elimination: R% is UGI and R$ is KPJ (given/derived). R& and R$ are not FPT, and RΩ and R$ are placed, so FPT must fall on R# (the only inner seat left that can pair with HNB opposite it); the rest — HTS, LPU, UPI, NIT — fill the remaining seats consistently with "HTS immediately left of LPU" and the UPI second-left clue.
Answering the question
The person just behind R© is the KPJ graduate, namely R$.
Move three seats to the right of R$ around the four-seat inner ring; in a ring of four this is the same seat as one seat to the left of R$.
That seat holds R#. Since R# is not offered by name, the matching choice is the description "the one sitting at the immediate left of R$."
Cross-check
R$ is itself the KPJ graduate, so the "KPJ" description names the starting reference, not the seat three places along.
R& sits only one seat to the right of R$, and RΩ two seats — neither reaches the third seat in the counting direction.
So a single description fits, and "None of these" is ruled out.