Select a figure from the four alternatives that would complete the Figure Matrix.

     

 

    (1)   (2)  (3)   (4)

In each row (as well as each column), the third figure is a combination of all the elements of the first and second figures.

In each row, the third figure is a combination of the first and second figure.

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.

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.

In each row, the figures are getting laterally inverted in each step. The number of components or the quantities are either increasing or decreasing from left to right sequentially.

The third figure in each row comprises of parts which are not common to the first two figures.

In each column, the second figure (middle figure) is obtained by removing the upper part of the first figure (uppermost figure) and the third figure (lowermost figure) is obtained by vertically inverting the upper part of the first figure.

In each row, the third figure comprises of a black circle and only those line segments which are not common to the first and the second figures.