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Puzzle And Seating Arrangement Questions

Seating Arrangement Puzzle is one of the highlighted topics when the discussion comes on about the weightage and importance of topics in the competitive examination syllabus.

Seating Arrangement Puzzle is that topic that can really test and check the actual mental intelligence of any student. Seating Arrangement marks are high and the frequency of the number of questions asked in any competition is always higher than other counterpart topics in logical reasoning.  A unique thing that makes the seating arrangement puzzle different from other topics of verbal reasoning is that the examiner plays a smart game with the student. The questions will remind you of lengthy paragraphs and then the student has to extract the solutions for particular questions asked. This article can be very helpful to learn how to solve seating arrangement questions. If you want to get a good score out of this lengthy topic go through this article and practice seating arrangement problems a lot.

What Is A Seating Arrangement?

The seating arrangement can be understood best by imagining some scenarios. Let’s understand this by an example.

Suppose you are going to have mid-semester examinations in your college. There are hundreds of students that are there in one section of the class. Let’s assume that there are 50 students in your class. Now, since the examinations are going to be held in written format, there will definitely be a sitting arrangements process that will happen in the classes of your college after the class dismissal every day for a few days.

Now, the college administration has a big task of distributing seats to each student among a total of fifty students. Let’s say there are only two classrooms where all of the students have to be made to sit to give the examination. Can you imagine how the administration does those seat allotment processes in which each and every student that is enrolled in a numerical sequence by an identity called roll number can be separated apart to avoid any kind of ill-act like cheating!

This arrangement is done only with the help of puzzle and seating arrangement skills. An individual should know to apply logic and conclude the similarities to get to the answer.

We will understand puzzles and seating arrangement problems in depth below in some sections.

Seating Arrangement Puzzle Questions

Example 1. 

  1. There are three cars on each side of the road.
  2. These six cars are labeled as U, W, V, Y, X, and Z.
  3. The cars are of different variants of color namely, purple,yellow, grey, brown, red, and pink.
  4. The cars are of different heights.
  5. Y, the tallest car, is exactly opposite the purple-colored car.
  6. The shortest car is exactly the opposite of the grey colored car.
  7. Z, the brown colored car is located between U and X.
  8. W, the red colored car, is exactly the opposite of U.
  9. V, the gray colored car, is exactly opposite to Z.
  10. U, the pink colored car is taller than W but shorter than X and V.

Illustration1. What is the color of the car diagonally opposite to the red colored car?

Option1. Pink

Option2. Yellow

Option3. Grey

Option4. Purple

Illustration2. Which is the second tallest car?

Option 1. U

Option 2. X

Option 3. V

Option 4. None of these cars

Illustration3. Which is the color of the tallest car?

Option 1. Purple

Option 2. Yellow

Option 3. Red

Option 4. None of these colors

Example 2.

There are six girls who joined together to have a get-together at Mansi’s birthday celebration. They want to play deck cards, that’s why they are sitting in a circular form. All the girls made a circle but they were confused about the order they should sit and play the game. The complete situation has been written in the form of a paragraph puzzle. 

Akansha is sitting in the opposite direction to Mansi. Urvashi is sitting at the right of Mansi but on the left of Swati. Aarzo is sitting at the left of Mansi. Riya is sitting at the right of Akansha and the left of Aarzoo. Now, Swati and Riya, Aarzo, and Mansi mutually exchange their positions.

Illustration1. Who will be sitting opposite Akansha?

Option1. Mansi

Option2. Riya

Option3. Aarzoo

Option4. Swati

Option5. None of these girls

Illustration2. Who will be sitting at the left of Riya?

Option1. Urvashi

Option2. Swati

Option3. Mansi

Option4. Akansha

Option5. None of these girls

Illustration3. Who will be sitting at the left of Swati?

Option1. Akansha

Option2. Aarzoo

Option3. Mansi

Option4. Urvashi

Option5. Cannot be determined

Conclusion

A unique thing that makes the seating arrangement puzzle different from other topics of verbal reasoning is that the examiner plays a smart game with the student. The questions will remind you of lengthy paragraphs and then the student has to extract the solutions for particular questions asked. This article must have taught you how to solve seating arrangement questions. Seating Arrangement marks are high and the frequency of the number of questions asked in any competition is always higher than other counterpart topics in logical reasoning. Practicing seating arrangement problems can put you on a pedestal and give a much-needed boost which will increase your overall score in the logical reasoning section. 

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