GATE XE (Engineering Sciences) 2026 - Question 5

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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 ________.

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  • A. 3
  • B. 6
  • C. 9
  • D. 12

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