Who sits third to the left of T?
Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.
A family has eight members - P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W - who are in different professions like teacher, chef, painter, manager, doctor, lawyer, engineer and architect. They are sitting for dinner in a circular pattern. Only two people sit between the architect and W. The doctor is not an immediate neighbour of the architect. The teacher is an immediate neighbour of both the lawyer and the engineer. U is not an immediate neighbour of P. V is not an immediate neighbour of the teacher. R is the immediate neighbour of the painter. P is not a painter. P sits third to the right of the architect. The doctor and chef are the immediate neighbours of each other. Neither P nor W is a doctor or a chef. The teacher sits second to the left of T. T is not an immediate neighbour of W. S who is an engineer sits second to the left of V. Q and R are immediate neighbours of each other
D
Correct answer
Explanation
This is the correct answer.
Only two people sit between the architect and W. The doctor is not an immediate neighbour of the architect. The teacher is an immediate neighbour of both lawyer and the engineer
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| |ARCHITECT|
|DOCTOR| |
|W | - LAWYER|
|ENGINEER|W - TEACHER|
U is not an immediate neighbour of P. V is not an immediate neighbour of the teacher. R is the immediate neighbour of the painter. P is not a painter. P sits third to the right of the architect.
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|U|R- ARCHITECT|
|DOCTOR|U PAINTER|
|P|U - LAWYER|
|ENGINEER|W- TEACHER|
Doctor and chef are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither P nor W is a doctor or a chef. The teacher sits second to the left of T. T is not an immediate neighbour of W.
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|U - CHEF|R - ARCHITECT|
|V- DOCTOR|T- PAINTER|
|P-| U - LAWYER|
|ENGINEER|W- TEACHER|
(Q is a chef, U may be an architect, but R is neither an engineer nor a lawyer. So, R is an architect. U is a lawyer because he cannot be an engineer, if he is so, then he is a neighbour of P. He should not be a neighbour of P. S remains and he is the engineer.)
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|Q - CHEF |R - ARCHITECT|
|V - DOCTOR|T - PAINTER|
|P - MANAGER|U - LAWYER|
|S - ENGINEER|W - TEACHER|