In a cricket match Gopal was sitting in seat 253. Reena was sitting to the right of Gopal in seat 254. In the seat left to Gopal was Raman. Ishita was sitting in the left to Raman, In which seat is Ishita sitting ?

The correct answer is C, seat 251. This is a linear seating question, and the fixed point is Reena's seat. Reena is at 254, to the right of Gopal, so Gopal is at 253 and seats increase toward the right. Working outward from there:

• Raman sits to the left of Gopal, so he is in seat 252.
• Ishita sits to the left of Raman, so she is in seat 251.

The wrong options come from direction errors. 255 is the seat to the right of Reena, which is not where Ishita is. 256 is two seats to the right of Gopal. 252 is Raman's seat, not Ishita's.

Core concept: in a row seating puzzle, first fix the reference seat, then apply left and right consistently with the numbering. This kind of arithmetic-reasoning question recurs in Prelims and trains the same systematic approach you need for CSAT-style logic.

Trap: reversing the direction, so that moving left increases the seat number. Once you check the given seat 254 for Reena, the direction is settled.