This question says that Tao is recruited second. When a question gives you a new rule, your first step should be to redraw the diagram beside the question, and add the new rule:
I’ve added the deduction that Stanton can’t go beside Tao (rule 1), which means that Stanton is somewhere to the right of Peters.
Next, consider the remaining rules and see which ones are affected. We have the following variables left to place:
- VW
- Q – R
VW is hard to place. They need two spaces. That space is available only to the right of P:
The comma between S and VW indicates that they are interchangeable: it doesn’t matter which order you place them in.
Only Q – R is left to place. Only 1st and 3rd are left open. Therefore, we must place Q in 1st and R in 3rd, to satisfy rule 2:
That’s all the deductions we can make. Use this diagram to go through the answers and eliminate the wrong ones.
A, B and E are clearly wrong. C is wrong because we can’t place S in 6th. Try it and see: the only possible order for 5, 6, 7 are SVW or VWS.
D is CORRECT. We can place SVW in 5, 6, 7.
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