Direction : Read the instruction carefully and give answer. Six persons A, B,…
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Direction : Read the instruction carefully and give answer.
Six persons A, B, C, X, Y and Z are sitting in two parallel rows viz. row-1 and row-2. A, B and C are sitting in row-1, while X, Y and Z are sitting in another row. Some of them are facing north and some of them are facing south.
X faces north. The one who sits opposite to X sits second to the right of C. B faces south and sits opposite to the one, who sits to the immediate right of Y. Y sits second right of X. A faces opposite direction of C. Y sits immediate right of Z.
Who among the following sits second right of A?
- A.
C
- B.
X
- C.
Y
- D.
B
- E.
None of these
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Correct answer: A
Concept
In a parallel-row arrangement, a person's left/right is defined by the direction they face, not by the page. For a person facing NORTH the RIGHT side is toward the page-right (East); for a person facing SOUTH the RIGHT side is toward the page-left (West). "Opposite" means the two seats that physically face each other across the rows. The method is to translate each clue into a direction-aware seat offset and discard any layout that breaks a clue.
Application
X faces North, so X's right points to the page-right. "Y sits second to the right of X" places Y two seats toward page-right of X. The only consistent fit puts X at the left seat and Y at the right seat of row-2.
"Y sits immediate to the right of Z" is satisfied only when Z faces North with Y one seat to Z's page-right, so Z takes the middle seat. Row-2 left-to-right is therefore X, Z, Y.
Y must face South for the next clue to hold. "B faces South and sits opposite the person immediately to the right of Y": Y facing South has its right toward the page-left, so the person immediately to Y's right is Z (the middle seat). B therefore sits in the row-1 seat directly facing Z, the middle seat of row-1.
"The one opposite X sits second to the right of C": the seat opposite X is the left seat of row-1. Working back, C faces South (right toward page-left) and the seat two places to C's right is exactly that left seat, so C occupies the right seat of row-1.
The only seat left in row-1 is the left seat, so A sits there. "A faces the opposite direction of C": C faces South, hence A faces North.
Final layout
Row | Left seat | Middle seat | Right seat |
|---|---|---|---|
Row-1 (A, B, C) | A (North) | B (South) | C (South) |
Row-2 (X, Y, Z) | X (North) | Z (North) | Y (South) |
Answer & cross-check
A sits at the left seat of row-1 facing North, so A's right points to the page-right. Two seats to A's right is the right seat of row-1, which is occupied by C. Hence the person second to the right of A is C.
Cross-check: stepping from A (left seat) one place to the right reaches B (middle) and a second place to the right reaches C (right seat) — confirming C, while every other named person fails the "two seats to A's right" test.