Question #320

Seen in the picture below is a funny looking little character (undoubtedly a friend of OTTO: Q#97, Q#99, Q#102, Q#105, Q#108, Q#114, Q#124) with interesting dynamical properties, as seen in an mpeg video by clicking your mouse on the photograph. Inside the little character there is obviously a ball in some sort of cavity.

Which of the following drawings most accurately describes the shape of the cross section of the funny looking little character?

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(b)
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(d)
(e)

Note that the arrow on the drawings points upward on the funny little character (toward its head) as oriented in the photograph above.

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