Section: General Aptitude | Marks: 1
A coin with heads facing up is shown as and a coin with tails facing up is shown as . 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 ________.

- A. 3
- B. 6
- C. 9
- D. 12