SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 13 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 25 of 99

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Six symbols %, &, ?, +, $ and @ are written on different faces of a dice. Two positions of this dice are shown in the figure below. Find the symbol on the face opposite to the one having @.

(a)$
(b)%
(c)&
(d)?

Answer

Why

Correct — D. The symbol & occupies the same position in both views, so the die has only been turned about the axis running through & and the face hidden behind it. The other four symbols keep their cyclic order.

Rule: the four faces around a fixed axis form a ring, and faces two apart in that ring are opposite.

Read each view in the same direction, top face then right face. View 1 gives % then ?. View 2 gives + then @.

The ring must therefore run % → ? → + → @ → %, the single arrangement in which % is followed by ? and + is followed by @.

Two apart in that ring: % faces +, and ? faces @. The face opposite @ is ?, option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
$ — $ appears in neither view. Since the ring around the & axis is made of %, ?, + and @, the face that $ occupies is the one hidden behind &.
(b)
% — % stands one step from @ in the ring, not two. The order % → ? → + → @ puts % opposite +.
(c)
& — & is drawn beside @ in the second view. Two faces you can see in one drawing share an edge, so they are adjacent and can never be opposite.

Concept

Two-view dice items start with a single question: what is common, and did it move? A symbol in the same position in both drawings means the die was turned about that face. A symbol that appears in both drawings but in different positions has moved and cannot be treated as fixed.

With one face pinned, the remaining four form a ring and the turn only slides symbols round it. Reading both views in the same direction — top, then the right-hand face — recovers the ring's order.

Two rules then settle everything: faces seen together are adjacent, and in a ring of four, faces two apart are opposite.

All six symbols are different, so no face repeats and the opposite-face rules apply without qualification. The symbol that appears in neither drawing is not a dead end — it is the fastest route to the face opposite the fixed one.

Key facts

& holds the same position in both views, which makes it the axis of the turn.
The ring around that axis runs % → ? → + → @, so % is opposite + and ? is opposite @.
$ appears in neither view, so it is the face opposite &.
Any two faces visible in the same drawing are adjacent, never opposite.

Study next

Dice items where the two views share two common symbolsStandard dice, where opposite faces total 7Open-dice net items, where a cross-shaped net is folded

Common traps

Treating a symbol as fixed because it appears in both views, without checking that it sits in the same position.
Reading the two views in opposite directions, which reverses the ring.
Ignoring the symbol that appears in neither view, which is what locates the face opposite the fixed one.

Spatial reasoning in this Reasoning block also covers the paper-folding items at Reasoning Q.3 and Q.9, which reward the same discipline of holding one reference fixed while the view changes.

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