Read the following information and answer the question that follows: P, Q, R,…

Concept: In a circular seating puzzle, each clue is either a fixed rotational offset ("nth to the left/right") or an adjacency fact ("neighbour of"). Converting every clue into a seat relationship and combining them pins each person to one unique seat, after which any answer option can be checked directly against that seat map.

Step-by-step:

1. Fix S at a reference seat among the 7 seats arranged in the circle.

2. V is second to the left of S, so V occupies the seat two places to the left of S.

3. V has only two neighbouring seats; since clue (ii) makes V the neighbour of both T and U, T and U must occupy exactly those two seats.

4. Clue (iii) says S is not a neighbour of R or T. Since T must sit next to V's seat, this fixes which of the two neighbour-seats is T and which is U.

5. The three seats not yet filled must hold P, Q and R, and, being the only seats left in the 7-seat circle, they form one consecutive block.

6. Clue (iv) makes P the neighbour of both Q and R, so P must sit in the middle seat of that block, with Q and R at its two ends.

7. The remaining part of clue (iii) (S is not a neighbour of R) fixes which end of the block is R and which is Q.

This fixes one seating order all the way round: S - Q - P - R - T - V - U (repeating), so R sits with P and T as its two neighbours, three seats to the right of S.

Cross-check each stated option against R's derived seat:

• "Second to the left of Q" lands on a different friend's seat, not R's.

• "Third to the right of U" lands on a different friend's seat, not R's.

• "To the immediate left of P" lands on a different friend's seat, not R's.

None of the three stated relations describes R's actual seat, so the correct choice is None of these.