Instructions

Based on the information answer the questions which follow.

Eight officers of Indian Trade Service meet for a cup of coffee at Coffee Point. The officers P, Q, R, S, T. U. V and W are seated in a circle and discuss issues related to Trade in Services, Trade in Intellectual Property Rights, Investments, Tariffs, Remedies, Standards, Trade Facilitation and Subsides not necessarily in the same order. An MBA student sitting on the next table overhears the discussion and ranks the issues as per their importance from 1 to 8. No two issues can have the same rank and no two officers can have the same position. Additional information available is:

i. P is sitting to the immediate left of S and the officer opposite to S discusses issues pertaining to Remedies.

ii. U's issue is ranked $$7^{th}$$ and there is one officer between U and the officer whose issue is ranked $$2^{nd}$$.

iii. The officer whose issue is ranked 1 is not opposite to the officer whose issue is ranked 8 who represents issues related to Investments.

iv. The ranks of the issues raised by the officers sitting opposite to each other cannot be both even or both odd.

v. The officer discussing issues related to Trade in Services is sitting opposite to T. T is sitting at a gap of one place from P.

vi. R is sitting opposite to Q and represent issues related to Standards and Trade in Intellectual Property Rights not necessarily in the same order.

vii. P's issue was ranked 4th and he was discussing issues related to Tariffs and sits opposite to the officer ranked 5th who represents issues related to Subsidies.

viii. The officers representing issues related to Trade in Services and Trade facilitation are sitting adjacent to each other.

Question 34

If the officer V is to the immediate right of the officer representing Trade Facilitation, then the officer $$4^{th}$$ to the right of V discusses which issue?

Solution

In statement (1) is is given that P is sitting to the immediate left of S and the officer opposite to S discusses issues pertaining to Remedies and in statement (7) it is given that P's issue was ranked 4th and he was discussing issues related to Tariffs and sits opposite to the officer ranked 5th who represents issues related to Subsidies. Therefore,

In statement 5 it is given that the officer discussing issues related to Trade in Services is sitting opposite to T. T is sitting at a gap of one place from P and in statement 8 it is given that the officers representing issues related to Trade in Services and Trade facilitation are sitting adjacent to each other. The only possible arrangement considering statement 6 as well is as shown below.

In statement 2 it is given that U's issue is ranked 7th and there is one officer between U and the officer whose issue is ranked 2nd, and in statement 3 it is given that the officer whose issue is ranked 1 is not opposite to the officer whose issue is ranked 8 who represents issues related to Investments.

Final arrangement:

If the officer V is to the immediate right of the officer representing Trade Facilitation, then the officer $$4^{th}$$ to the right of V discusses investments.
The answer is option D.


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