Figure Matrix
In each of the following questions, find out which of the answer figures (1), (2), (3) and (4) completes the figure matrix ?
| 1. | Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.  |
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Answer: Option B Explanation: There are 3 types of faces, 3 types of bodies, 3 types of hands and 3 types of legs, each of which is used only once in a single row. So, the features which have not been used in the first two figures of the third row would combine to produce the missing figure.
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| 2. | Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.  |
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Answer: Option B Explanation: In each column, the third figure (lowermost figure) contains one less number of hexagons as the first figure (uppermost figure) and the same number of trees as the second figure (middle figure).
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Answer: Option A Explanation: In each row, the central part of the first figure rotates either 90o CW or 90o ACW to form the central part of the second figure and the central part of the first figure rotates through 180o to form the central part of the third figure. Also, in each row, there are 3 types of side elements - rectangles, circles and triangles.
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Answer: Option C Explanation: The second figure is a part of the first figure (but is not exactly the same as the first figure).
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| 5. | Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.  |
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Answer: Option B Explanation: The two parts of the first figure are rearranged and joined along the longer sides. The common side is then lost to form the second figure.
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Answer: Option C Explanation: In each row, the third figure is a collection of the common elements (line segments) of the first and the second figures.
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| 7. | Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.  |
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Answer: Option D Explanation: In each row, there are 3 types of shadings of circles - a circle is unshaded, another circle has its right half shaded with vertical lines and yet another circle has its upper half shaded with horizontal lines. There are three specified positions of the two triangles each of which is used only once in a row. Also, two of the figures in each row have one triangle shaded.
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| 8. | Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.  |
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Answer: Option C Explanation: The second figure is obtained from the first figure by moving the line segment to the opposite side of the square boundary and replacing it with two similar line segments. Also, the element in the lower-left corner gets replaced by two similar elements - one placed in the upper-left and the other placed in the lower-right corner.
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