The 3D figure shows the view of an object. Identify the correct view looking in the direction of arrow, amongst the answer figures.
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The arrow shows the viewing direction; the face seen is the front-left face, so measure widths along the base edge that runs down to the right and heights from the stacked levels.
Looking along the arrow, we see the front-left side of the object, with the long edge of the base slab running left to right. The base slab spans the full width at the bottom. On it the low block with the sloping end covers about three-quarters of the width from the left, and this block ends in a sloping (chamfered) face that falls towards the right, so the elevation shows a diagonal running from the upper left to the lower right at that end. Behind it, the higher part covers the left half of the width, and the tall L-shaped column rises above it: its lower arm is on the left (one step lower) and the tallest part is the second quarter from the left. So the elevation has a full-width bottom layer, a second layer ending at three-quarters width with the diagonal, a third layer over the left half, and above it the tall part in the second quarter with the left quarter one step lower. Option (2) has the diagonal rising to the right, option (3) has no sloping face and shows a plain staircase profile, and option (4) places the tall part at the extreme left instead of the second quarter. Option (1) matches all of this. Answer: (1)
