PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SQUARE SEATING ARRANGEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-23 (MODERATE)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below.

 

Seven persons namely – P, Q, R, S, T, U and V are sitting in a pentagon table in such a way that one person sitting at each corner and one sitting at the middle of the table. Three places are vacant in the table. Person on the middle of the table facing center, while person on the corner sits facing away from center. Age of each person is different viz., 18, 21, 23, 26, 28, 31 and 34 years. No two adjacent places are vacant. All the information is not necessarily in same order.

 

P sits three places away from the one whose age is 28 years. The one whose age is 31 years sits fourth to left of S. Difference of ages of U and V is perfect cube. S, whose age is not an even number, sits third to right of U. The one whose age is 18 years sits on corner of the table but neither sits adjacent to V nor adjacent to the one whose age is 26 years. P sits adjacent to U, who sits facing away from center. Sum of ages of V and S is twice the age of P. Age of V is neither even number nor sits adjacent to vacant place. No person sits between Q and R, who doesn’t sit adjacent to S. Two persons sit between T and the one whose age is 18 years.

 

 

Question No : 1

What is the position of T with respect to the one whose age is 34 years?

(1) Second to left

(2) Immediate right

(3) Third to left

(4) Immediate left

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

What is the difference between the ages of Q and R?

(1) 16 years     

(2) 11 years     

(3) 8 years       

(4) 13 years     

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

How many persons sit between S and the one whose age is 31 years, when counted left of S?

(1) 3

(2) 2

(3) 1    

(4) More than three

(5) None

Question No : 4

Which of the following combination of person and their age are true?

(1) U–26          

(2) S–18           

(3) T–23          

(4) V–21          

(5) R–34

Question No : 5

Which of the following statements is not true?

(1) The one whose age is 21 years sits immediate left of Q

(2) Two persons sits between P and the one whose age is 31 years

(3) The one whose age is 34 years sits immediate left of V

(4) T sits second to left of U

(5) All the above statements are true