Environmental Science and Engineering
GATE ES topic:transformation-shapes PYQs
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Question 5
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A coin with heads facing up is shown as

and a coin with tails facing up is shown as

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Six coins are placed in the Starting Arrangement, as shown in the figure below. A “step” is defined as interchanging a pair of adjacent coins without flipping them. The minimum number of steps needed to go from the Starting Arrangement to the Final Arrangement, as shown in the figure, is ________.

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A paper shown in Panel I is folded along the dashed lines ( - - -) to construct a cube. The shaded regions shown in Panel I appear on the outer surface of the cube. Referring to cubes shown in Panel II, which one of the options is correct?

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