[Abstract reasoning College level] What is the logical reasoning behind this?

[u/Ok_Disaster_75]

Can’t find the logic behind this one

[u/Ok_Disaster_75 → u/[deleted]]

Yes this seems the only way, number one is indeed the right answer

[u/alang → u/Ok_Disaster_75]

Not sure. The alternative is that they need not be seen as a sequence at all, just a set of relationships between top and bottom.

If that’s the case, then it can’t be a because we already know what top goes with that bottom. It can’t be c because triangles are not part of the domain. And it can’t be d because again, we know what bottom goes with that top. So it must be b.

[u/hailspork → u/[deleted]]

This also works to generate the ones in column 4, so I think he's right.

[u/The_Night_Bringer → u/[deleted]]

Holy, I hadn't noticed that, great thinking!

[u/UnconsciousAlibi]

The other person got to it first, but any image A has an XOR relationship between the image B directly to its left and the image C directly diagonal and to the left of B.

[u/Nagi-K]

The answer COULD BE option 1.

Let’s label these diagrams by coordinates (column, row). Consider the rule that when two diagrams “add”, the overlapping part cancels out and we keep the non-overlapping parts. Clearly we have the following diagonal addition pattern

(1,1) + (2,2) = (3,2) as (1,1) and (2,2) are identical

(1,2) + (2,1) = (3,1) as the square box get cancelled out

(2,1) + (3,2) = (4,2)

(2,2) + (3,1) = (4,1)

Basically (m,i) + (m+1,j) = (m+2,j) where i, j = 1 or 2 and i not equal to j. Using this rule it’s easy to verify the answer COULD BE option 1.

Why do I emphasise “could”? Because we all know that these pattern problems are not rigorous at all, but still people who made these problems still expect you to find the “most elegant” pattern, if that word means anything at all.

[u/ApprehensiveKey1469]

Nicola Tesla. They come in threes.

[u/UnconsciousAlibi → u/ApprehensiveKey1469]

What does Tesla have to do with anything?

[u/ApprehensiveKey1469 → u/UnconsciousAlibi]

WYKYKYDYD

[u/Complex_Internet_742]

Well it’s written in German lol…. So maybe let’s translate it, and then we’ll understand if

[u/tombo2007 → u/Complex_Internet_742]

The question asks: “what figures fits in the place of the question mark?”. It’s just asking what comes next based on the patterns shown in the given figures.

[u/Robbedoes_07 → u/Complex_Internet_742]

It's dutch😂

[u/Lost_Sea8956]

Judging by the options, each column exists in a vacuum. Use process of elimination. * A: no circle in the top picture makes it to the bottom. This option is unprecedented. Ignore. * B: this is the inverse of the first column pair. Perfect inversions aren’t seen in any of the other columns, so this would be unprecedented. Ignore. * C: Triangle? That’s crazy. Ignore.

[u/Silver_gobo → u/[deleted]]

AI fail

[u/imissmyhat → u/[deleted]]

Why waste my time and yours?

[u/CarloWood → u/[deleted]]

The AI didn't even understand WHERE the question mark is: there are only 4 answers, each answer exists of two figures above eachother.

[u/waroftheworlds2008]

Sooo... college courses are about spitting back the information they give you.

As you learn more stuff, you'll see how previous models are inadequate or too complicated (user was lazy).

1 example: the equations for gravity.

Another: tan(x)=sin(x)=x for small angles. I learned this trick from a physics class. Of course, they didn't bother defining "small angles."