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

Build straight on the layout already forced by the "F, D and J sit together" condition. Since D and J sit next to each other at chairs 1 and 2, and F can only legally occupy an Athlete's chair (5 or 10), the only way to complete the three-seat block is F at chair 10. That leaves chair 5 as the sole remaining Athlete seat, so B has to sit there, there is no other option left for B.

The rest of the table stays exactly as derived earlier: chair 1 is D, chair 2 is J, chair 4 is G, chair 6 is C, chair 7 is I, chair 9 is H, and A, E occupy chairs 3 and 8 between them.

The question asks for whoever sits immediately to the left of C. On a clockwise-numbered circle, moving left means moving one step backward in the numbering, so from chair 6 (C's seat), one step left lands on chair 5.

Chair 5 was just pinned down as B's seat in the previous paragraph, as a direct consequence of F being forced to chair 10. So the answer here does not need any fresh deduction, it falls straight out of the seat that F's placement freed up for B.

Let's summarize:

• F, D, J sitting together forces F to chair 10 and, by elimination, B to chair 5.
• Chair 5 sits directly to the left of C's chair, chair 6.
• Therefore B is the person immediately to the left of C.

The immediate left neighbor of C is B.