Each of the following questions, find out which of the answer figures (1),…

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Each of the following questions, find out which of the answer figures (1), (2), (3) and (4) completes the figure matrix ? Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.

  1. A.

    1

  2. B.

    2

  3. C.

    3

  4. D.

    4

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Correct answer: B

Concept: In a figure-matrix (figure-analogy) puzzle, every visual attribute of the stick figures — head shape, body shape, arm style, and leg-ending style — is drawn from a fixed set of exactly three variants, and each row uses every variant of every attribute exactly once (no attribute repeats within a row). The missing figure must therefore carry, for each attribute, the one variant that the row’s other two figures have not already used.

Application: Compare the two given figures of the third row attribute by attribute.

Attribute

Row-3, figure 1

Row-3, figure 2

Missing figure (required)

Head shape

Circle

Downward triangle

Square (the only shape not yet used)

Body shape

Rectangle

Oval (teardrop)

Plain stick/line (the only shape not yet used)

Arm style

Raised diagonal (arms up)

Straight horizontal

Branching, down-angled (the only style not yet used)

Leg-ending style

Plain tip (no marker)

Diamond marker

Circle marker (the only style not yet used)

Combining these four required variants — square head, plain stick body, branching down-angled arms, and circular foot markers — gives exactly the figure shown against (2).

Cross-check: The same one-of-each-type rule holds across the two complete rows. Row 1 uses the triangle, circle, and square heads once each, the rectangle, stick, and oval bodies once each, the raised, branching, and horizontal arm styles once each, and the diamond, plain, and circle leg endings once each; row 2 reuses the same three variants of every attribute in a different arrangement, again exactly once each. Since the rule holds consistently across both complete rows, applying it to the incomplete third row identifies the missing figure without ambiguity.

Hence, the figure at (2) completes the figure matrix.

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