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09 Dec 2008, 4:34 pm

I did one of those online tests today. Below is the final (and most difficult) question. The website wouldn't tell me what the answers were, so I saved a printscreen of this last question to my computer.

Does anyone have any ideas?
For info - this was the 39th out of 39 questions, and I was given 40 minutes for the whole test. And I'm not telling what score I got.

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09 Dec 2008, 4:58 pm

False?

Sorry, just kidding.



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09 Dec 2008, 5:43 pm

Stumped me, but I recognize the test- it's Raven's Progressive Matrices.


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09 Dec 2008, 6:12 pm

Not got the solution but I see a pattern.

If you number the peices:
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 ?

Then if you rotate 4 by 90 degrees counter clockwise it is idential to 3

Similarly if you rotate 7 by 90 degrees counter clockwise it is identical to 6

Something just isn't clicking in my mind though to put the final bit of logic in place.

If there was a 10th piece it would be a simple extrapolation of rotating it the same to become the missing piece.

Hmmmmmmmm :?


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09 Dec 2008, 6:34 pm

I'm not entirely sure why, but I'm thinking it's A or C. I'm trying to discern the actual pattern, but the other answers seem to not follow the same manner of being assorted as the rest.



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09 Dec 2008, 6:41 pm

I'm guessing F at first, but only because it and D are the only ones that don't have a tightly packed triangle of symbols. And D just doesn't look right. I'll look at it some more.



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09 Dec 2008, 6:43 pm

F or C would be my gut instinct.


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09 Dec 2008, 7:11 pm

G?


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09 Dec 2008, 7:27 pm

Do you have a link to the test?



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09 Dec 2008, 7:28 pm

G.



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09 Dec 2008, 8:19 pm

My guess is that this is the link: iqtest.dk ???


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10 Dec 2008, 12:54 am

DWill wrote:
G.


Why G?



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10 Dec 2008, 1:56 am

baleeted



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10 Dec 2008, 1:57 am

DWill wrote:
G.


I ruled C and G out from the progression of columns with one of each element in them. Still working.



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10 Dec 2008, 2:40 am

Death_of_Pathos wrote:
DWill wrote:
G.


I ruled C and G out from the progression of columns with one of each element in them. Still working.


I was just going to say that I'm changing my guess to C. The items in the set all have 1 row AND 1 column with 3 different symbols in it. 1 of these is always on the edge, and they are always perpendicular. C is the only one that fits(that I've noticed so far). I could be chasing the wrong thing though. This is really starting to bug me.



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10 Dec 2008, 3:09 am

OccamsIndecision wrote:
Death_of_Pathos wrote:
DWill wrote:
G.


I ruled C and G out from the progression of columns with one of each element in them. Still working.


I was just going to say that I'm changing my guess to C. The items in the set all have 1 row AND 1 column with 3 different symbols in it. 1 of these is always on the edge, and they are always perpendicular. C is the only one that fits(that I've noticed so far). I could be chasing the wrong thing though. This is really starting to bug me.


Look at the rows of the middle square.

Look at the progress of the one-of-each property of columns. It is the most easy to discern rule. It goes:

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010 001 100
100 010 001
001 100 ???


Here is the test. Two other questions bugged me, I got the rest and scored a 135 http://iqtest.dk/main.swf