Six colleagues—P, Q, R, X, Y, and Z—are seated in two parallel rows containing three people each, such that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In Row 1, P, Q, and R are seated and all of them are facing North. In Row 2, X, Y, and Z are seated and all of them are facing South. In this seating arrangement, each member seated in a row faces exactly one member of the other row.
The following information is given:
1. X is not sitting at any extreme end of the row.
2. R sits to the immediate right of the person who faces X.
3. Z faces the person who sits to the immediate left of P.
Based on the above arrangement, who sits to the immediate right of X?
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Answer
Z
Based on the conditions, X is in the middle of Row 2 facing South. P must be in the middle of Row 1 facing X, so that R can sit on P's immediate right (North-facing right). Q is on the immediate left of P, and Z faces Q. Thus, from the viewer's perspective, Row 2 is ordered Z, X, Y (left to right). Since Row 2 faces South, X's immediate right is to the viewer's left, which is occupied by Z.
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Parallel Row Seating Arrangement with Opposite Facing Directions