Select a suitable figure from the Answer Figures that would replace the…

Concept

In a figure-series (pattern-completion) question, every figure differs from the one before it by the same set of transformations applied to specific parts of the figure. To find the missing figure: isolate each moving part, work out exactly how it shifts from one figure to the next using the figures already given, then apply that same shift once more.

Application

This hexagon carries three independent markers: a short double line resting on one side of the hexagon, a small circle sitting just outside one of its sides, and an arrow attached at one corner. Label the hexagon's six sides going clockwise as: left-vertical, top-left slant, top-right slant, right-vertical, bottom-right slant, bottom-left slant, and its corners as Top, Upper-right, Lower-right, Bottom, Lower-left, Upper-left. Track each marker across the three Problem Figures:

1. Double line: it advances by 2 sides from Figure A (left-vertical) to Figure B (top-right slant), then by only 1 side from Figure B to Figure C (right-vertical) — a repeating 2-then-1 clockwise step pattern. The next step in that pattern is a 2-side advance, which carries it from the right-vertical side to the bottom-left slant side for Figure D.

2. Circle: at every stage it sits outside the hexagon exactly two sides behind the double line in the clockwise order (counted the other way round). Since the double line moves to the bottom-left slant side, the circle moves to the right-vertical side.

3. Arrow: it is tied to the double line's step size — every time the double line takes a 2-side step, the arrow flips to the opposite corner (and its direction reverses); every time the double line takes only a 1-side step, the arrow stays where it is. So Figure A to B (a 2-side line-step) flips the arrow from the Bottom corner (pointing left) to the Top corner (pointing right); Figure B to C (a 1-side line-step) leaves the arrow at the Top corner; Figure C to D is again a 2-side line-step, so the arrow flips back to the Bottom corner, pointing left.

Cross-check

Checking all the answer figures against these three requirements together: only one figure has the double line on the bottom-left slant side, the circle on the matching two-sides-behind position, AND the arrow back at the Bottom corner pointing left. Every other option breaks at least one requirement: one option leaves the double line on its original side, one option misplaces the circle, one option reverses the arrow's direction, and one option simply repeats Figure A unchanged.

So the figure that completes the series is Answer Figure 4.