Six girls are sitting in a circle facing the centre of the circle. They are P,…
2025
Six girls are sitting in a circle facing the centre of the circle. They are P, Q, R, S, T and V. T is not between Q and S; someone else sits between them. P is next to the left of V. R is 4th to the right of P.
Which one is sitting just right of V?
- A.
P
- B.
T
- C.
R
- D.
S/Q
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Correct answer: B
Concept: When everyone in a circle faces the centre, each person's own left and right are reversed compared to viewing the circle from outside, but the direction that is 'right' for one person is the same rotational direction as 'right' for every other person around the ring. So every 'X is right of Y' clue can be placed on one consistent seat-numbering that increases by 1 in that same 'right' direction all the way around, wrapping from the 6th seat back to the 1st.
Number the seats 1 to 6 so that seat (k + 1) is one seat to the right of seat k, wrapping from seat 6 back to seat 1. Place P at seat 1 as the starting reference.
P is next to the left of V, i.e. V sits one seat to the right of P, so V = seat 2.
R is 4th to the right of P: counting four seats to the right of seat 1 lands on seat 5, so R = seat 5.
The remaining seats 3, 4 and 6 hold Q, S and T. The clue requires exactly one seat to lie between Q's and S's seats (the short way round), occupied by someone other than T. Test each possibility: if T sits at seat 6, Q and S take seats 3 and 4, which sit directly next to each other, so zero seats lie between them, leaving no 'someone else' for the clue to describe. If T sits at seat 4, Q and S take seats 3 and 6, with two seats (4 and 5) lying between them, which is too many for the clue's 'exactly one'. Only if T sits at seat 3 do Q and S take seats 4 and 6, with exactly one seat, seat 5, lying between them, and seat 5 is R, matching the clue precisely. So T = seat 3, and Q and S split seats 4 and 6 between them (which one takes which is never fixed by the clues, which is exactly why they are offered together as one option).
Seat 3 (T) is one seat to the right of seat 2 (V), so T is the person sitting just right of V.
Cross-check: with R fixed at seat 5, the seat two places to its right is seat 1, i.e. P, confirming on the same seat-numbering that P sits second to the right of R, an independent relationship not directly used above.
T sits just right of V.