Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:…

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Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

  1. P, Q, R, S, T, U and V are sitting around a circular table facing the centre.

  2. R is next to the left of U and V is second to the left of R.

  3. P is sitting third to the left of T.

  4. Q is between S and T.

Which of the following is false? (question no 16 till 18 are linked together)

  1. A.

    P is fourth to the right of T

  2. B.

    U is to the immediate right of R.

  3. C.

    U is third to the right of S.

  4. D.

    Q is to the immediate left of S.

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Correct answer: C

Concept: In a circular-arrangement puzzle where everyone faces the centre, a person's left corresponds to the clockwise direction (viewed from above) and their right corresponds to the anticlockwise direction; "kth to the left/right" counts k seats in that direction. Solving means translating every clue into a seat offset, chaining them into one fixed clockwise order, and then checking each option against that order.

Fix U at seat 0 as a reference and build the order step by step:

  1. R is to the immediate left of U, so R sits one seat clockwise of U -- seat 1.

  2. V is second to the left of R, so V sits two seats clockwise of R -- seat 3.

  3. The remaining seats 2, 4, 5, and 6 must hold P, Q, S, and T. For "Q is between S and T" to hold, T needs at least one still-open neighbouring seat for Q. Checking each candidate seat for T: seat 2 fails immediately because both of its neighbouring seats (1 and 3) are already taken by R and V, leaving no open seat for Q; seat 4 forces P (T's seat + 3, clockwise) onto seat 0, already taken by U; seat 5 forces P onto seat 1, already taken by R. Only T = seat 6 avoids both problems, forcing P onto the still-open seat 2.

  4. With T at seat 6, "Q is between S and T" fixes Q at seat 5 (the open seat next to T) and S at seat 4 (the open seat next to Q).

  5. This gives the fixed clockwise seating order: U(0)-R(1)-P(2)-V(3)-S(4)-Q(5)-T(6).

Checking each option against this order:

  1. P is fourth to the right of T: from T (seat 6), four seats anticlockwise lands on seat 2 -- P. This holds.

  2. U is to the immediate right of R: from R (seat 1), one seat anticlockwise lands on seat 0 -- U. This holds.

  3. U is third to the right of S: from S (seat 4), three seats anticlockwise lands on seat 1 -- R, not U. This claim fails -- U is the false statement the question asks for.

  4. Q is to the immediate left of S: from S (seat 4), one seat clockwise lands on seat 5 -- Q. This holds.

Cross-check: Going the other way around the same seven-seat circle, U is three seats to the LEFT of S (S + 3 = seat 0 = U), which is consistent with U being four seats to the RIGHT of S (4 + 3 = 7, the full circle) -- confirming that "third to the right" (which lands on R) is indeed false.

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