Select a suitable figure from the Answer Figures that would replace the…
2025
Select a suitable figure from the Answer Figures that would replace the question mark (?) and continue the series shown in the Problem Figures.
Problem Figures: (A) (B) (C) (D) Answer Figures: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
- A.
1
- B.
2
- C.
3
- D.
4
- E.
5
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Correct answer: C
Concept: In a figure-series (pattern completion) question built on a fixed base shape with several evenly spaced positions (here, an 8-spoked wheel), each moving design element - a tangent line mark outside the wheel and a filled dot inside one of its sectors - advances by a number of positions around the wheel from one figure to the next. That step size can stay constant or can follow a short repeating pattern across consecutive steps, which you determine by comparing ALL the given figures (not just one pair) and then applying the same step to the last given figure.
Application: Number the wheel's 8 equally spaced positions running anticlockwise. From the first Problem Figure to the second, the tangent mark moves 4 positions anticlockwise and the dot moves 3 positions anticlockwise. From the second Problem Figure to the third, the mark moves only 1 position anticlockwise and the dot does not move at all - so each element's step size alternates between two values (4 then 1 for the mark, 3 then 0 for the dot) as the series continues. Applying the same alternation for the next step, back to the first value, from the third Problem Figure: the mark's step of 4 positions anticlockwise returns it to the position it occupies at the top edge of the wheel, and the dot's step of 3 positions anticlockwise moves it into the sector immediately to the right of the vertical spoke, above the horizontal spoke.
Cross-check: Two of the five Answer Figures drop the dot altogether, so they cannot continue a series in which a dot appears in every figure. Of the remaining three, one keeps the mark at the top edge but places the dot right beside it (a far bigger dot-step than the pattern allows), and another moves the dot only one position instead of three; only the figure with the mark back at the top edge and the dot three positions on from the third Problem Figure - in the sector beside the vertical spoke on the upper-right - reproduces the alternating step sizes established by the series.