Seating Arrangement Quiz – Reasoning Questions and Answers

1. Eight people P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, and W are born on two different dates i.e. 12th and 15th in four different months i.e. January, February, March, and April but not necessarily in the same order. One person is born on one date. Each one of them likes different colors. The one, who likes Purple, is not born on the 12th. R, who does not like Pink, is born immediately before V. Two people are born between T, who does not like Blue, and the one, who likes Grey. Two people are born between U and the one, who likes Red. Five people are born between P and the one, who likes Black. Q does not like Black. Three people are born between W, who does not like Orange, and T. The one, who likes Pink, is born immediately before the one, who likes Grey, and both are born in the same month. U likes White and born before P. The one, who likes Black, is born in April.

How many people are born after the one, who likes Orange?

2. Who among the following is the oldest?

3. Which of the following colors is liked by the one, who is born immediate after the one, who likes Grey?

4. Find the incorrect statement(s) from the following.
1) The one, who likes Purple, is born after T.
2) Three people are born after V.
3) The one, who likes Orange, is born before the one, who likes Black.

5. Find the odd one.

6. Direction: Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Eight persons – A, K, M, V, C, S, G, and R are sitting in a straight line (but not necessarily in the same order) such that three of them are facing south and rest of them are facing north. Each of them holds a different profession viz. Engineer, Doctor, Pilot, CA, Teacher, Manager, CEO and Student but not necessarily in the same order.

1) Four persons are sitting between R and C, who is an Engineer.
2) S sits right of M, who is a Doctor.
3) G and C face opposite direction to each other.
4) The one, who is sitting on the immediate right of V, is a Pilot.
5) K sits third from one of the ends of the row.
6) R sits third to the right of M.
7) The one who is a CA sits immediate right of the one who is a Teacher.
8) M doesn’t face north direction.
9) G is an immediate neighbor of both M and C
10) V sits second to the right of G.
11) M sits to the immediate left of K.
12) The one who is a Manager sits at an extreme end
13) The one who is a Student sits between C and A
14) S is not CA

What is the profession of K?

7. Which of the following combinations is correct?

8. How many person(s) sit between C and S?

9. What is the position of the one who is CEO with respect to the one who is Pilot?

10. Find the odd one out?

11. Direction: Study the following data carefully and answer the questions accordingly.

Seven persons are sitting in a row. Some of them are facing north and some are facing south. They all belong to different cities i.e. Pune, Dehradun, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Agra and Gurgaon. All the information is not necessarily in the same order.

G doesn’t belong to Dehradun. S doesn’t belong to Mumbai. K doesn’t belong to Jaipur. Two persons sit between S and the one who belongs to Jaipur who sits at the end. Two persons sit between the one who belongs to Agra and a neighbour of R. At least three persons sit between the one who belongs to Mumbai and the one who belongs to Dehradun. The one who belongs to Agra doesn’t sit at the end of the row. Three persons sit between W and G who faces opposite to the one who belongs to Agra. R sits to the immediate right of S who faces south. The one who belongs to Pune sits second to the right of the one who belongs to Agra. Both the neighbours of the one who belongs to Agra face opposite to each other. M sits to the left of D. W sits adjacent to the one who belongs to Pune. Both the neighbours of R face the same direction. The one who belongs to Mumbai sits adjacent to R. The one who belongs to Jaipur doesn’t face south. Two persons sit between the one who belongs to Gurgaon and K. R and K face opposite to M.

Who amongst the following person belongs to Kolkata?

12. What is the position of the one who belongs to Mumbai with respect to K?

13. Who amongst the following person sits third to the left of R?

14. Direction: Study the following data carefully and answer the questions accordingly.

Eight persons are working in a bank. Their designations are Chairman & Managing Director (CMD), Executive Director (ED), General Manager (GM), Deputy General Manager (DGM), Assistant General Manager (AGM), Chief Manager (CM), Manager and Probationary Officer (PO). Sequence of the posts are as above i.e. CMD is the senior most and PO is the junior most person. They have different years of experiences and different age. No two persons have same years of experience.

Three persons are junior than G. The difference of experience between R and G is 7 years and G has the least experience. The one who is just senior to the one who is 34 years old has 3 years of experience. The one who is 64 years old person is just senior to the one who has 7 years of experience. There are three designations between the one whose age is 64 years and R. The one who is just senior to R has 8 years of experience. The one who is just junior to S is 6 years younger than S. The one who is just senior to T is 58 years old. R is 2 years elder than the one who is just senior to T. A has 2 years more and 1 year more experience than W and Q respectively. The one who is two designations senior to W is 67 years old. One person’s designation lies between G and the one whose experience is 7 years. There are two designations between the one who has 8 years of experience and T. The number of persons junior to R is 1 less than the number of persons senior to Q. There is a gap of 3 designations between Q and the one who is 34 years old. Two designations lie between the one who has 3 years of experience and A. S is 55 years old and junior to R. M doesn’t have 3 years of experience. G is 6 years elder than T who has 1 year less experience than S.

Who amongst the following person is the Executive Director (ED)?

15. What is sum of the experience of W, the one who is ED and the one who is 49 years old?

16. Direction: Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.
Six students i.e. Z, J, C, A, B and N study in six different classes i.e. II, IV, V, VII, VIII and Xth. They are standing in a seminar hall according to their classes in descending order. B studies in higher class with respect to C. N study in lower class with respect to J. A studies in class VI and in lower class with respect to J. Z does not study in class II, VIII and X. B studies in lower class with respect to N. A studies in higher class respect to B and B does not study in class IV.

Who among the following study in class VIII?

17. Which of the following statement is false?

18. How many students studies in higher class with respect to Z?

19. Direction: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below.

Ten persons i.e. C, D, E, F, J, K, S, T, U and V are sitting around two hollow shaped table. One table is inscribed in another table. The inner table is pentagon shaped and the outer table is circular shaped. Five persons are sitting at the corners of the inner table and five persons are sitting in outer table such that they are sitting opposite to the persons who are sitting in the inner table. The persons who are sitting in inner table are facing outside the table and the persons who are sitting in the outer table are facing inside the table. They all like different Pet i.e. Rabbit, Dog, Horse, Fish, Mouse, Pigeon, Turtle, Parrot, Cat and Sparrow. All the information is not necessarily in the same order.

C likes Mouse and faces J, who sits 2nd to the left of E. Both T and S are the neighbors of C. The one who likes Turtle faces F who sits 2nd to the left of J. The one who likes Dog faces S. The one likes Horse sits 2nd to the right of E. U sits just to the left of S. The one who likes Cat sits 2nd to the left of K and faces the one who likes Parrot. J doesn’t like Pigeon. The one who likes Sparrow faces the one who is just to the left of T. K sits 2nd to the left of the one who likes Dog. V sits just to the right of the one who likes Pigeon. V sits in inner table. The one who likes Fish doesn’t face V.

Which of the following pet does F like?

20. How many people are sitting between T and the one who likes Parrot if counted starting from the right of T?

21. Who among the following sits just to the right of one who likes Cat?

22. Who among the following is a neighbor of D?

23. Which of the following combinations is true?