Question

Directions for questions 146 to 148: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Ten sports persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J are sitting around a circular table. Each two of them play one of the following sports: Cricket, Swimming, Athletics, Football and Tennis, not necessarily in that order. It is also known that:

• Cricketers are sitting to the immediate right of Athletes and to the immediate left of Swimmers.
• Players who play the same sport sit opposite each other.
• The Tennis player does not sit next to a Swimmer.
• G is sitting equidistant from I and D.
• B and F are Athletes.
• C and D are Cricketers.
• G is sitting three places to the right of D and two places to the left of C.
• J and I are Swimmers.
• H is sitting two places to the right of I.

If F, D and J sit together, then answer the following question.

Who sits to the immediate left of C?

• A. G
• B. B
• C. F
• D. Cannot be determined

Hint:

Once F, D and J sit together, F must take the Athlete seat next to D, which pushes B into the seat right next to C.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Step 1: Reuse the arrangement fixed for this condition.
As worked out in question 147, once F, D and J are made to sit together, F must occupy chair 10 (the only Athlete seat next to the D-J block), which pushes B into the other Athlete seat, chair 5. The rest of the base arrangement stays as before: D at chair 1, J at chair 2, G at chair 4, C at chair 6, I at chair 7 and H at chair 9, with A and E splitting chairs 3 and 8.

Step 2: Identify the seat immediately to the left of C.
C sits at chair 6. Moving one step counter-clockwise, that is, one step to the left, lands on chair 5.

Step 3: Read off who occupies chair 5.
Chair 5 was fixed as B's seat in Step 1, since F took chair 10 and B had to take the remaining Athlete chair.

Step 4: Final Answer.
The person sitting to the immediate left of C is B.
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