Circular Arrangement Puzzles

What is Circular Arrangement?

In this type of arrangement, objects/persons are placed around a circle:

• either facing the centre.

• or facing the direction opposite to the centre

Now, let us understand some concepts related to Circular Arrangement.

Consider the following circular sitting arrangement:

Concept 1

Q. Who is sitting in front of F?

Answer: B

Concept 2

Q. Who is sitting on the immediate right of C?

Answer: A

Now, let’s understand this topic further with the help of an example.

Q. Study the following information carefully and answer the given question.

Four ladies A, B, C and D and four gentlemen E, F, G and H are sitting in a circle around a table facing each other.

I. No two ladies or two gentlemen are sitting side-by-side.
II. C, who is sitting between G and E, is facing D.
III. F is between D and A and is facing G.
IV. H is to the right of B.

E is facing whom?

(a) F  (b) B  (c) G  (d) H

Explanation:

Statement III: F is between D and A and is facing G.

Two cases are feasible:

Statement II: C, who is sitting between G and E, is facing D.

Statement IV: H is to the right of B.

Statement I: No two ladies or two gentlemen are sitting side-by-side.

Case II can be rejected as B and D, as well as G and H are sitting together here. Case I is fine.

So, E is facing H.

Answer: (d)

What is Polygonal Arrangement?

A polygon is a closed figure formed with three or more sides.

In these type of questions, the arrangement of objects/persons is done around a triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon etc.