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Consider the figures given below:
To fit the question mark, the correct answer is
(a) Figure: a straight bar with a solid square at its left end and two bent legs · (b) Figure: a straight bar with a solid dot at its left end and two bent legs · (c) Figure: a straight bar with a triangle at its left end and two long forked legs · (d) Figure: a straight bar with a solid dot at its right end and two short legs
उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English
Answer: (a)
Each row and each column uses each body once and each set of legs once. The last row already has the arc-with-triangle and U-with-dot bodies, and the T-shaped and forked legs, so the missing figure is the bar with a square and two bent legs — (a).
- Bodies: U-curve with dot, straight bar with square, arc with triangle. Legs: two bent, three T-shaped, four forked.
- Row 1: U + two bent; bar + three T; arc + four forked. Row 2: bar + four forked; arc + two bent; U + three T.
- Row 3 has arc + three T and U + four forked, so it lacks the bar body and the two bent legs.
- Column 3 agrees: arc and U are used, so the bar is missing; forked and T-shaped legs are used, so two bent legs are missing.
- Only (a) — a bar with a square and two bent legs — fits.
Remember · In 3 × 3 figure matrices, split each figure into parts and check that each part appears once in every row and column.
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