Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions…
2023
Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below-
Ten persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J sit in two rectangular tables X and Y. Three of them like horror novel, three likes thriller and four of them likes romance novel.
Four persons sit in table X and remaining sits in table Y. The person sits in middle faces outside the centre and the person sit in corner face inside the centre. Persons sits in table X sit in middle and in Table Y four seats are placed in middle and four seats are placed in the corner. Two seats are vacant in Table Y.
D sits in table X. J does not sit in table Y. G sits immediate left of J and neither of them like thriller. The one who likes romance does not sit in the middle of table Y. D likes romance and sits opposite to G. E likes romance and sit on table Y. Both the immediate neighbours of E like thriller. More than three seats between the persons who likes thriller. A sits immediate left of the one who likes thriller. F sits third to the left of A. C sits in table X. Two persons sits between D and J. B does not like thriller and romance. Two persons sit between D and the one who likes thriller. The persons who likes thriller does not sit in the corner. I sits 2nd to the left of a vacant seat. Both the vacant seats are not adjacent two each other. The one who likes horror sits immediate right of the one who likes romance in table Y. A doesn’t like Horror.
Which of the following statements is true?
- A.
G sits in the corner of Table X.
- B.
E sits immediate left of the one who likes horror novels.
- C.
B likes romance novels.
- D.
I sits immediate right of F.
- E.
F sits in the middle of Table Y.
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Correct answer: E
Concept
In a two-table arrangement, first fix WHO sits where using the unconditional table-assignment clues, then layer the genre and seat-type (middle vs corner) constraints on top. Membership is settled before geometry: a clue forcing a person to a table, plus a clue tying two people as same-table neighbours, can fully fill one table on their own.
Application
D and C are both stated to sit at Table X. J does not sit at Table Y, so J sits at Table X, and G — being immediate left of J — is at Table X too. That is four people: D, J, G and C. Table X holds exactly four, so it is full and its membership is fixed.
The remaining six — A, B, E, F, H and I — therefore all sit at Table Y (six occupied seats out of eight, two vacant).
Genres: three like thriller in all. D likes romance, and G and J are not thriller, so among Table X the only possible thriller-reader is C — leaving exactly two thriller-readers at Table Y.
E likes romance; a romance-reader cannot take a middle seat of Table Y, so E sits at a corner. Both of E's immediate neighbours like thriller, and since only two thriller-readers are at Table Y, those two neighbours ARE the two Table-Y thriller-readers. Thriller-readers cannot sit at corners, so both neighbour seats are middle seats.
A sits immediate left of a thriller-reader and F sits third to the left of A. With the romance and horror counts fixed, the only consistent placement makes F the second of E's two thriller-side neighbours. So F is a thriller-reader sitting in a middle seat of Table Y.
Therefore the true statement is: F sits in the middle of Table Y.
Cross-check (why the other statements fail)
“G sits in the corner of Table X” — Table X has only middle seats; no corner seats exist there, so no one can sit at a corner of Table X.
“B likes romance” — B likes neither thriller nor romance, which leaves only horror; B is a horror-reader.
“I sits immediate right of F” — I's seat is pinned by the vacant-seat condition (second to the left of a vacant seat, with the two vacancies non-adjacent), and that seat is not the one to F's immediate right, so I is not F's right-hand neighbour.
“E sits immediate left of the one who likes horror” — both of E's neighbours like thriller, so neither side of E is a horror-reader.