Progression Pattern — Medium Matrix Reasoning Question

What to learn from this pattern

As you move down the rows, the colours rotate one step on a three-colour wheel: red → blue → green → red.

Explanation

As you move down the rows, the colours rotate one step on a three-colour wheel: red → blue → green → red. Row 1 cells are row 0 cells with one rotation step applied — red becomes blue and blue becomes green. Row 2 cells are row 0 cells with two rotation steps applied — red becomes green and blue becomes red. Positions and counts in each cell stay the same; only the colours shift. Row 0 column 2 shows 1 red at the centre and 2 blues at top-left and bottom-right. After two rotations the colours are 1 green at the centre and 2 reds at top-left and bottom-right — option C.

Why the other options are wrong

• Amissed-row-rule — applied only one colour-wheel step instead of two for row 2
• Bpartial-rule — got two colours right but mixed positions, breaking the cell-wise transformation
• Dwrong-condition — left a red unchanged instead of rotating two steps through R→B→G→R