Monday, 3 January 2011

IQ Test DK, answers and reasoning.

The knowledge in this post is presented based on the following link. I'll explain the logic behind its final and hardest puzzles.

1 D
2 F
3 B
4 G
5 A
6 H

7 B
8 E
9 H
10 A
11 C
12 F
13 B

14 D
15 H
16 E
17 F
18 C
19 E
20 D

21 G
22 A
23 B
24 H
25 B
26 A
27
H
28 G
29 E
30 A  - Pay careful attention to the images. Images in the middle are shrunk when they combine with the image on the left to form the image on the right. The middle image is reduced to the size of the image on the left, resulting in a square of the same size and an additional black ball.

31 D   - Images in each corner are formed by two combined shapes from their nearest respective directions.

32 E   -  Obvious, one segment moves each time.
 
33 G    -  There are three separate patterns, each is placed at a certain angle.

34 G    - The middle circle acts as a + or - function. Balls outside are minus, inside are addition.

35 C   -  There's a pivot in each arrow, for the two patterns above it's in the middle, for the third it's in the
bottom right.

36 F    -  Imagine it's a bar chart. In patterns, the largest 'bar' appears three times, and one and two sized

bars appear twice. Using these patterns you can deduce that the answer must be F.

37 H    -  The entire image is a continuous pattern. A black square appears every turn. There are two balls
that move one space right every turn. When they pass a black square, they are not only invisible, but they
change colous when they emerge.

38     -   The arrow not only enlargens but changes orientation too.

39 B     -   Each symbol moves right one space per turn. Triangles turn to Xs, Xs to Os, and Os to triangles.

12 comments:

  1. i don't figure out how 39 works.
    from the top left corner square do we read dow or right?
    and then "each symbol moves right one space per turn" means nothing to me.
    is there someone intelligent here to explain plainly the trick? thanks

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  2. Each symbol moves right. When Rightest column jumps to Left each symbol moves down. Triangles turn to Xs, Xs to Os, and Os to triangles.

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  3. I got perfect on this test back when it had the coloured puzzles in the final 4. The test has become a lot harder since then, to me. Since I've come here it looks like I can never take the test again. :(

    Thanks for the outlook though. I never thought of looking at 39 or 37 that way. (I might have solved 37, but I never would have gotten 39.)

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  4. are you sure about the answer to number 36? isn't E also correct? or maybe I just didn't understand how to actually solve it...

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  5. Thanks, was helpful.

    However, I believe that the following answer explanations are underspecified:

    32
    35
    36
    38

    A few of the questions had more than one pattern that could be justified as well, but this is a problem with the test itself.


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  6. 36 is not complete....in every column and row the biggest pattern is appears in 3 different colours and in every row the "chart" has 3 directions: up, right and left

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  7. E is another consistent and logical interpretation in my opinion

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  10. 35 is C indeed. But the explanation given here is insufficient. Just concluding that there is a pivot (rotation point) in each arrow that rotates the images 90 degrees between the first column and the last leaves the middle column meaningless. And it provides no logic to why the rotation point is in the bottom right and the rotation is counterclockwise while it was in the middle and clockwise with the upper two. You might as well place the pivot in the top right and rotate clockwise to produce A. You may even conclude that the complete image is rotated 90 degrees clockwise between the first and the last image (still ignoring the middle column) and end up with E as the correct answer.

    I think the correct explanation is that images from the first column are rotated (flipped or mirrored if you will) over the axis given in the second column to produce the image in the last column. This way C is the only option.

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    1. Yeah, you're right. The images are flipped and rotated over the axis given in the second column.

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