Which answer figure from among the given figures will complete the pattern in…

Concept: In a figure-completion question, every design rule already visible in the given figure — the lines, the symmetry, and any repeating sub-shape — must continue by the exact same rule into the blank part. The correct option is the only one that extends every element, including how far any repeating shape has shrunk or grown, without adding, dropping, or resizing anything.

Complete figure:

Applying it here: The given figure has three continuing elements:

1. Two long diagonals run from corner to corner of the square, passing through every corner block along the way.

2. From the middle of each side, a pair of lines fans inward and builds a set of nested squares that shrink step by step as they approach the centre.

3. Each corner block sits on a diagonal and is subdivided one step further (one size smaller) than the block nearer the edge.

The blank corner must take the next step of this shrinking sequence: a square block, one size smaller than the last visible block, still crossed by the diagonal.

Cross-check: Checking the four figures against these three rules:

• One figure keeps the corner block undivided as a single square that the diagonal never touches — it drops both the shrinking sequence and the diagonal.

• One figure uses a tall rectangle for the corner block instead of a square, so the block shape itself breaks the pattern.

• One figure does subdivide the block and keeps it on the diagonal, but stops one step before the shrinking sequence should reach.

• Only one figure both sits on the diagonal and subdivides the block one step further (smaller) than the last visible block — exactly continuing the sequence.

So the figure that carries the diagonal through the most subdivided (smallest) corner square, matching how the pattern narrows step by step toward the centre, correctly completes the given figure.