Select the figure which satisfies the same conditions of placement of the dots…
2023
Select the figure which satisfies the same conditions of placement of the dots as in Figure-X .
- A.
1
- B.
2
- C.
3
- D.
4
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Correct answer: C
CONCEPT: In dot-situation questions, the reference figure (X) is built from a few overlapping shapes, and every dot sits inside one specific “compartment” — the region belonging to an exact combination of those shapes (for example, inside the circle and the triangle but outside the square, or inside the circle only, touching neither of the other two shapes). The answer figure must be the ONE diagram whose overlapping shapes recreate ALL the same compartments that hold a dot in Figure (X); the shapes may be re-arranged, rotated, or resized, but every occupied compartment must still exist.
APPLICATION: In Figure (X), one dot lies in the part of the circle that overlaps the triangle while staying outside the square, and the second dot lies in the part of the circle that touches neither the triangle nor the square. So the correct answer figure must contain both compartments together: (a) circle-and-triangle overlap that stays outside the square, and (b) a part of the circle free of both the triangle and the square.
Figure marked (1): the triangle sits only over the square and never touches the circle at all, so no circle-and-triangle overlap forms anywhere — compartment (a) is missing.
Figure marked (2): the triangle does cross the circle, but only in the part of the circle that also lies inside the square, so a circle-and-triangle region that stays outside the square never forms — compartment (a) is still missing.
Figure marked (4): the triangle covers the entire upper half of the circle and the square covers the rest, so every part of the circle touches at least one of the other two shapes — compartment (b), a part of the circle free of both shapes, never forms.
CROSS-CHECK: Only the figure marked (3) has a stretch of circle overlapping the triangle while staying clear of the square, AND a separate stretch of circle that touches neither the triangle nor the square — reproducing both compartments occupied by the dots in Figure (X).