(1-5) Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions:

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table facing the centre. Each one of them has a different profession viz. doctor, engineer, architect, teacher, clerk, shopkeeper, businessman and banker. A sits third to right of teacher. D sits second to left of G. G is not an immediate neighbor of the teacher. Only one person sits between B who is the shopkeeper and teacher. The one who is an architect sits third to right of the shopkeeper. H sits between architect and engineer. E is not an immediate neighbor of H. Engineer sits third to the right of clerk. Only one person sits between businessman and F. E is neither a businessman nor a doctor. F is not a doctor.

1. Which of the following is true with respect to the given seating arrangement?
a) E is an immediate neighbour of the engineer
b) E is an architect
c) The clerk is an immediate neighbour of the banker
d) The teacher sits between H and the engineer
e) Shopkeeper sits second to the right of the teacher

2. What is the profession of H?
a) Businessman
b) Architect
c) Banker
d) Teacher
e) Shopkeeper

3. What is the position of doctor with respect to the banker?
a) Immediately to the left
b) Third to the left
c) Second to the right
d) Fourth to the left
e) Second to the left

4. Who sit/s exactly between the architect and the businessman?
a) C and H
b) Clerk
c) Banker and Shopkeeper
d) Doctor
e) C and teacher

5. Who amongst the following is a clerk?
a) C
b) D
c) E
d) F
e) G

6. Which of the following symbols should replace the question mark in the given expression in order to make the expressions ‘J > M’ as well as ‘N < K’ definitely true?
J ≥ K ? L = M ≥ N
a) ≤
b) <
c) ≥
d) =
e) >

7. In which of the following expressions will the expressions ‘D ≥ B’ as well as ‘C > F’ be definitely true?
a) A ≥ B ≥ C > D = F
b) A < B ≤ C = D > F
c) A < B ≤ C ≤ D > F
d) A < B ≥ C = D > F
e) None of these

(8-9) Study the following information to answer the given questions:

Six chemicals L, M, N, O, P and Q are kept in bottles of different colours viz, green, red, blue, white, pink and violet not necessarily in the same order. There bottles are arranged from left to right, again not necessarily in the same order. Chemical M is kept in white bottle. Chemical L is not kept in green bottle and is kept to the immediate left of the violet bottle. Chemical O is kept in the blue bottle and is kept exactly between the bottles containing chemicals L and M. The red bottle is at the extreme left end. The bottles containing chemical Q is not kept at either of the ends. The green bottle is kept at the extreme right end. Chemical P is not kept near the white bottle.

8. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on their positions in the above arrangement and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to the group?
a) LM
b) LP
c) QO
d) LQ
e) NO

9. Which bottle contains chemical L?
a) Pink
b) Blue
c) Red
d) Cannot be determined
e) None of these