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

2024

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?

  1. A.

    QU

  2. B.

    VU

  3. C.

    TR

  4. D.

    PT

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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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