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GATE CSE 2026 Set 2 · Q2

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A black square PQRS has been cut into two parts. One part of it is shown in Panel I. Which one of the shapes in Panel II is the other part?

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Official answer: C) (iii)

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To find the missing piece, we identify the white complement region inside the square PQRSPQRS in Panel I and see which of the shapes in Panel II can be formed by rotating or reflecting it (standard rigid planar motion/rotation).

  1. Let the square PQRSPQRS be represented on a 5×55 \times 5 grid where (1,1)(1,1) is the top-left and (5,5)(5,5) is the bottom-right.

  2. The black region in Panel I occupies the outer border and some inner cells, leaving a distinct white shape formed of contiguous unit blocks.

  3. Rotating the white cutout by 90∘90^\circ counterclockwise (or matching its shape directly) yields the exact configuration shown in (iii).

Therefore, shape (iii) is the other part, which corresponds to option (C).

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A black square PQRS has been cut into two parts. One part of it is shown in Panel I. Which one of the shapes in Panel II is the other part?

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