Five around a table — Seating & Puzzles Aptitude Question
Five around a table: Five people sit around a circular table facing the centre. P is between Q and R, and S is… Answer and worked solution on CodeKairo.
- Topic: Seating & Puzzles
- Section: Logical Reasoning
- Difficulty: Hard
- Time target: 120 seconds
Question
Five people sit around a circular table facing the centre. P is between Q and R, and S is between R and T. Who sits between T and Q?
Options
- P
- R
- S
- Nobody
Show the answer and the worked solution
Correct answer: D. Nobody
Worked solution
- P between Q and R gives the stretch Q–P–R.
- S between R and T extends it to Q–P–R–S–T.
- Closing the circle, T sits next to Q, so nobody sits between them.
- Reading the completed circle Q–P–R–S–T–Q, the only person adjacent to both T and Q is nobody.
Answer: Nobody.
The idea
Build one continuous chain from the clues, then close it into a circle. The remaining adjacency falls out automatically.
Shortcut. The two clues chain all five people (Q–P–R–S–T). When a chain uses everyone at a round table, its two ends must be neighbours, so T sits beside Q with nobody between.
Common trap. "R" — reading Q–P–R–S–T as a straight row, where R sits in the middle between the end seats Q and T; around a table T and Q touch.