Select a figure from amongst the answer figures which will continue the same series as established by the problem figures given below.
Problem Figures
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) →
The figures go in pairs: a dotted line marks a cut, and in the next figure the part beyond the cut is gone, so the shape loses one side at a time (hexagon, five sides, rectangle). The last figure is the rectangle with a dotted diagonal from the top-left to the bottom-right corner; the cuts take off the right part, then the left part, so this cut takes the right-hand (upper-right) half and the lower-left right-angled triangle is left, tall and narrow like the rectangle it comes from.