Seating Arrangement Questions with Solutions

Seating arrangement questions give a set of clues about where people sit and ask you to work out the full arrangement. This topic covers linear arrangements (people in one or two rows, facing north, south or each other), circular arrangements (facing the centre or facing outward), and square or rectangular tables. Start with the most definite clue, such as a fixed position or two people sitting next to each other. Then add clues that link to people already placed, leaving the vague ones for last. In circular arrangements facing the centre, a person's left is clockwise and right is anticlockwise. When a clue allows two possibilities, draw both cases and eliminate one using later clues. Practise the seating arrangement questions below. Each solution shows the arrangement built step by step.