Read the given information carefully and answer the questions that follow.…

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Read the given information carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Eleven friends X, Y, Z, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H are sitting in the first row of the stadium watching a cricket match.

E is to the immediate left of A and third to the right of F.

G is the immediate neighbour of X and Y and third to the left of D.

X is the second to the right of B, who is at one of the ends.

C is sitting next to the right of A and A is second to the right of Z.

Which of the following people are sitting to the right of D?

  1. A.

    ZEAB

  2. B.

    ZEAC

  3. C.

    FYGX

  4. D.

    FZEAC

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Correct answer: B

In a linear seating puzzle, every clue is a distance-and-direction rule ("immediate left", "second/third to the right", "immediate neighbour") that fixes one person's position relative to another. Fix the anchors given first (an end position, a fixed offset from an end), then thread each remaining clue's offset outward, treating "nth to the right" as plus n seats from that person's seat number. Once every person has a seat, the answer follows by simply reading off the entries in the required range.

  1. B is at one of the two ends (from the clue: X is second to the right of B, who is at one of the ends). Testing B at the last seat forces X beyond seat 11, which is impossible with only 11 seats, so B must be at seat 1, giving X at seat 3 (second to the right of seat 1).

  2. G is the immediate neighbour of both X and Y, so X and Y must occupy the two seats adjacent to G. Since X is fixed at seat 3, G can only be at seat 2 or seat 4. Seat 2 would force Y into seat 1, which B already occupies, so G is at seat 4 and Y is at seat 5.

  3. G is third to the left of D, so D is at seat 7 (G's seat plus 3).

  4. The six seats 2, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 11 remain for H, F, Z, E, A and C. Testing each possible seat for F against the clue "E is third to the right of F", only seat 6 for F keeps every later position inside the row, giving E at seat 9.

  5. E is immediately left of A, so A is at seat 10; C is immediately right of A, so C is at seat 11.

  6. A is second to the right of Z, so Z is at seat 8 (A's seat minus 2).

  7. The one seat left, seat 2, goes to H by elimination.

Final seating order from seat 1 to seat 11: B, H, X, G, Y, F, D, Z, E, A, C.

Cross-check every original clue against this final order:

  • E (seat 9) is immediately left of A (seat 10) and third to the right of F (seat 6): both hold.

  • G (seat 4) is the immediate neighbour of X (seat 3) and Y (seat 5), and third to the left of D (seat 7): all hold.

  • X (seat 3) is second to the right of B (seat 1), who is at an end: holds.

  • C (seat 11) is immediately right of A (seat 10), and A is second to the right of Z (seat 8): both hold.

D is at seat 7, so the seats to the right of D (seats 8 to 11) are occupied by Z, E, A and C, in that order — matching the option ZEAC.

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