The complex that can show optical activity is:

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Strategy:
 Identify the chiral complex—the one lacking any plane of symmetry and not superimposable upon its mirror image.

Step 1: Evaluate the options
- trans-: Contains a plane of symmetry dissecting the  axis. Achiral.
- trans-: Contains a horizontal plane of symmetry. Achiral.
- cis-: For an octahedral complex with purely monodentate ligands , the cis-isomer possesses a plane of symmetry bisecting the two B ligands. Achiral.
- cis-: An octahedral cis-complex containing two bidentate ligands

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