Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting around a circular table, facing…
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Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting around a circular table, facing the center.
C is sitting in-between A and F.
B is sitting two places to the left of E.
D is sitting two places to the right of F.
Between which two persons is D sitting? (Questions 3 and 4 are linked together.)
- A.
F-B
- B.
E-B
- C.
C-B
- D.
A-B
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Correct answer: B
Concept: In circular-arrangement puzzles with relative clues (‘between’, ‘two places to the left/right’), first fix any block of consecutive people given by an ‘in-between’ clue, then place the remaining people one clue at a time using the stated offsets — testing each placement against every earlier clue before moving on, since only one overall arrangement can satisfy all the clues at once.
Clue I says C sits in-between A and F, so A, C and F occupy three consecutive seats together, in the order A-C-F or F-C-A.
Clue III places D exactly two seats after F. Testing the F-C-A order for the block makes D land on the same seat as A, which is not allowed since every person needs a distinct seat — so the block must be in the order A-C-F, with one seat left empty between F and D.
With A, C, F and D fixed, only two seats remain for B and E. Clue II requires B to sit exactly two seats before E; checking the two remaining seats shows this holds only when B takes the seat between F and D, and E takes the seat on the other side of D.
B now sits on one side of D, and E sits on the other side of D.
Reading the seats in order — A, C, F, B, D, E and back to A — satisfies all three clues together: C is between A and F; counting two seats from F reaches D; and counting two seats from B reaches E. No other seating keeps all three clues true at the same time.
So D is sitting between B and E.