Problem #11: A Dinner Party
We were given a formal dinner party for ten (including ourselves) which is a
number I always like because the host can sit at one end of the table and the
hostess at the other, and still maintain the correct alternate male and female
around the table. My wife was trying to work out the seating. "Tom and Jean
have not been here to dinner before so they are the guests of honor. Tom must
sit on my right and Jean on your right, but I don't know how I want to seat
the others.: "Well," I said, "I would like Janet on my left. I have a soft
spot for her." "You can have her," replied my wife, "but I will not have her
husband Jack next to me; I think he should be next to Mary Ann."
Since we do not place husbands and wives next to each other, this determined the
seating of everyone, including Howard's wife Lois, and Mary Ann's husband Bill.
Can you work out the seating arrangement?
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