Answer the following question based on the information given below.
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 Series, Trade in Intellectual Property Rights, Investments, Tariffs, Remedies, Standards, Trade Facilitation and Subsidies not necessarily in the same order. An MBA student sitting on the next table overheads the discussion and ranks the issues as per their importance from 1 to 8. Not two officers can have the same position. Additional information available is:
P is sitting to the immediate left of S and the officer opposite to S discusses issues pertaining to Remedies.
U's issues is ranked 7th and there is one officer between U and the officer whose issue is ranked 2nd .
The officer whose issue is ranked 1 is not opposite to the officer whose issue is ranked 8 who represent issues related to Investments.
The ranks of the issues raised by the officers sitting opposite to each other cannot be both even or both odd.
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.
R is sitting opposite to Q and represent issues related to standards and Trade in Intellectual Property Rights not necessarily in the same order.
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.
The officers representing issues related to Trade in Services and Trade Facilitation are sitting adjacent to each other.
Q13
LR - Arrangements MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which officer discusses Remedies and what is its rank?
Answer: C
R and Q are opposite to each other and T is one place away from P. Thus one among R and Q is sitting to the immediate left of P. Now using v and viii, the position of T and the officers who discussed Trade in Services and Trade Facilitation can be determined and T’s issue is related to Investments.
Using conditions ii and iv, U’s issue has to be Remedies. One among, Standards and Trade is Intellectual Property Rights has the rank 2nd. The rank of the issue of Trade Facilitation must be 6th.
