Which figure completes the series? Question Figures :: Answer Figures :: A B C…

Concept: In an arc-based figure-series question, each fixed position in the figure (top, left, right, bottom-left, bottom-right) carries one arc whose orientation - opening toward the centre of the box or opening away from it - changes according to a rule that repeats across the sequence. Solving the series means isolating each position, tracking how its orientation changes from one figure to the next, and extending that same rule to the missing figure.

Application:

1. The bottom-left and bottom-right arcs stay fixed throughout figures A to E - both always open toward the centre of the box.

2. The top arc opens away from the centre in figure A, then switches to opening toward the centre for figures B and C, then switches back to opening away from the centre for figures D and E.

3. The left arc opens toward the centre in figures A and B, switches to opening away from the centre for figures C and D, then switches back to opening toward the centre in figure E.

4. The right arc opens toward the centre in figures A and B, then switches to opening away from the centre from figure C onward, remaining in that state through figures D and E.

5. Continuing this anti-clockwise sequence of inversions from figure E, the bottom corners stay fixed, the left and right arcs keep their figure-E orientation, and the top arc inverts again - this arrangement matches answer figure 1.

Cross-check:

• Answer figure 2 inverts the bottom-right arc away from the centre, breaking the invariant that the bottom corners never change across the series.

• Answer figure 3 also inverts the bottom-right arc away from the centre, the same break from the fixed bottom-corner pattern.

• Answer figure 4 shows the right arc opening toward the centre again, when the established sequence keeps it opening away from the centre from figure C onward.

• Answer figure 5 keeps the left arc opening away from the centre, when the sequence requires it to switch back to opening toward the centre, as it does moving from figure D to figure E.

• Answer figure 1 is the only option that keeps the bottom corners fixed and correctly continues the top, left and right arc-inversion sequence.