Read the following information given below and answer the questions that…

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Read the following information given below and answer the questions that follow.P, Q, R, S, T, U and V are seven friends and are sitting in a circle facing the center of the circle.V is second to the left of S and is the neighbour of T and U.S is not a neighbour of R or T.P is neighbour of Q and R.Which of the following has the pair with the second person sitting to the immediate right of the first person?

Answer: B. VUIn a circular seating puzzle where everyone faces the centre, every clue about "second to the left of", "neighbour of", or "not a neighbour of" fixes people's…

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Correct answer: B

In a circular seating puzzle where everyone faces the centre, every clue about "second to the left of", "neighbour of", or "not a neighbour of" fixes people's seats relative to one another along a single consistent direction. Build one seat-by-seat chain from the clues, confirm every clue holds simultaneously in the completed circle, and only then read off any specific left/right relationship — "right" is always the direction opposite whichever direction was used as "left" while building the chain.

  1. Place V two seats to the left of S: moving in the "left" direction from S gives one seat, then V, so S → (seat) → V.

  2. V's two neighbours are T and U. Since S cannot be next to T, the seat between S and V must be U (not T), which puts T on V's other side: S–U–V–T.

  3. P is the neighbour of both Q and R, so P must sit between them, forming a block of three consecutive seats: Q–P–R or R–P–Q.

  4. S cannot be next to R, and the only open seats for this block are next to S on one side and next to T on the other, so R must sit next to T and Q must sit next to S: S–U–V–T–R–P–Q, closing back to S.

  5. Reading the "right" direction (opposite of the "left" direction used to place V) around this completed circle, V's immediate right-hand neighbour is U.

Cross-check against every original clue on S–U–V–T–R–P–Q: V is two seats to the left of S, V's neighbours are U and T, S's neighbours are U and Q (neither R nor T), and P's neighbours are R and Q — every clue holds simultaneously. The figure below shows this same circle, confirming U sits immediately to the right of V.

So the pair V, U is the one where the second-named person sits immediately to the right of the first-named person; none of the other listed pairs hold in this arrangement.

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