Circular Arrangements Questions for CAT

Six people A, B, C, D, E, F sit around a circular table, all facing OUTWARD (backs to the centre). When facing outward, a person's immediate left is the counter-clockwise neighbour and immediate right is the clockwise neighbour. Clues: B is to the immediate right of A; D is to the immediate left of A; C sits opposite B; F is adjacent to C. (The unique seating, clockwise, is A, B, E, F, C, D.)

Six people sit in two concentric circles of three each. P, Q, R are on the INNER circle facing outward; S, T, U are on the OUTER circle facing inward. Each inner person faces the outer person at the same angular position. Inner: right = clockwise, left = counter-clockwise. Outer: right = counter-clockwise, left = clockwise. Clues: P faces S; T is to S's immediate right; Q is to P's immediate left.

Arth, Bala, Charuvi, Divya, Esha, Falguni, Girish and Harsh go to a fruit and vegetable market. They buy one type of fruit/vegetable each. They then return and discuss the prices of these fruits, each of which is different while sitting around a circular table. The following information is known:

1. None of the children buy fruits or vegetables that start with the same letter as their name.

2. The child who buys apples sits opposite the child with the 5th most expensive fruit who sits in between Girish and the one who buys eggplant.

3. Girish does not buy figs while Esha buys dragon fruit.

4. If Harsh buys eggplant Girish buys bananas. However, the one who buys bananas does not sit opposite the one buying figs.

5. The one buying Honeydew sits second to the right of Harsh whereas the one who buys the most expensive fruit sits opposite to the one buying the 4th most expensive fruit.

6. Fig is the cheapest fruit and the person who buys it sits second to the left of Divya. Divya does not sit opposite the child buying the 7th expensive fruit.

7. Only one person sits in between the people who buy banana and dragon fruit.

8. The one buying chikoo (which is the second most expensive fruit) sits second to the left of the one buying grapes and in between the children who buy the cheapest fruits.

9. Arth sits between Bala and Charuvi. Esha sits opposite to Bala.

Seven people sit around a circular table facing OUTWARD. Person M is fixed, and person P is third to the right of M (right = clockwise when facing out).

After clearing the audition round, six people, A, B, C, D, E, and F, got selected for a popular reality show SHOWDIES. Each person belongs to a different city among Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Calcutta, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Lucknow.

The pattern of reality shows is such that players have to perform a task with buddies, and hence, these six players are divided into three buddy pairs.

During a particular task, all six are made to sit around a circular table facing the centre with buddies seated opposite each other.

Following is the information available about their arrangement:

1. Players from Delhi and Ahmedabad are paired as buddies, and Player C is sitting to the immediate right of the former.

2. B is one of the neighbours of the person from Calcutta.

3. Person from Bhopal is sitting opposite the person from Calcutta, and A is neither of both.

4. Two unique pairs of players, with their names as consecutive letters, are sitting next to each other. A-B, C-D, D-E etc. are some examples of consecutive pairs.

Example: In an arrangement, if A-B and D-E are two consecutive pairs already formed, then there be no other consecutive pairs in the arrangement.

5. Neither A nor B is sitting next to E.

6. The city's initial letter and the name are the same for only one player.