Read the information carefully and answer the question given below: Fourteen…
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Read the information carefully and answer the question given below: Fourteen persons are sitting in two parallel rows containing seven persons each. In row 1, A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seated and all of them are facing north, while P, Q, R, S, T, U and V are sitting in row 2 and facing south, but not necessarily in the same order. Persons of row 1 face the persons of row 2. Q sits two places away from the one who faces E. E is the only immediate neighbour of D. U faces the one who sits third to the right of C. The number of persons who sit to the right of Q is the same as the number of persons who sit to the left of G. B sits second to the left of G. One person sits between R and V, and both of them do not sit at the extreme ends. S sits to the right of T but does not sit at the extreme ends. A faces the one who sits second to the right of R. How many persons sit to the left of the one who faces S?
- A.
Two
- B.
More than four
- C.
Four
- D.
One
- E.
Three
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: D
Concept
In a two-parallel-rows arrangement the two rows face each other, so each person in one row sits directly opposite — and faces — exactly one person in the other row. "Left" and "right" are taken from each seated person's own viewpoint, so they run in opposite directions for the two oppositely-facing rows. The relative clues (second to the left, third to the right, number of persons on a side, who faces whom) are resolved by fixing one end with the strongest clue and propagating the rest.
Application — building the arrangement
"E is the only immediate neighbour of D" puts D at an extreme end with E directly beside it, since only an end seat has a single neighbour.
"B sits second to the left of G" places B two seats from G on G's left, and "persons to the right of Q equals persons to the left of G" fixes three persons on G's left; together these give row 1 (left to right) as A, B, C, G, F, E, D.
"Q sits two places from the one who faces E", "U faces the one third to the right of C", and "A faces the one second to the right of R" tie row-2 seats to row-1 seats column by column.
"One person sits between R and V, neither at an extreme end" and "S is to the right of T but not at an extreme end" then leave only one consistent order for row 2: P, S, R, Q, V, U, T.
Final arrangement
Row | Seat 1 | Seat 2 | Seat 3 | Seat 4 | Seat 5 | Seat 6 | Seat 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Row 1 (North) | A | B | C | G | F | E | D |
Row 2 (South) | P | S | R | Q | V | U | T |
Answering the question
S occupies the second column from one end, so the row-1 person directly opposite S — the one who faces S — is B. Reading from B's own north-facing viewpoint, only A lies on the side the question asks about. Hence exactly one person sits there.
Cross-check
The count is taken on row 1 (B's row), so the opposite orientation of row 2 does not affect it: B sits second from the end, leaving a single person between B and that end. This confirms the result.