What two figures (one in range a-i and the other in range 1-9) is the odd ones that should be switched to restore both patterns, and why?
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Sign up to join this communityI believe the answer is to change the middle middle square of figure a-i and left middle square of figure 1-9. I circled these boxes with a black circle in the picture I attached. I think these boxes should be changed because the middle circles in each figure should correspond. I circled the middle middle shapes in each corresponding box. As you can see, two of the boxes do not correspond(the ones circled in red and pink) one has a x in the middle and the other has nothing.
If you
look at the difference between the corresponding squares (assuming you do the swap given in the other answer by QuantumTwinkie,
you get
which in my opinion is a fairly nicely-behaving pattern.