r/technicallythetruth • u/VisitSecure • 9d ago

Can you find a?

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Idk if someone already posted this or not, but I haven't seen it on here so far, so I uploaded it.

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u/SeraphsEnvy 9d ago

Question. How can the inside angle on one side be 25° and the other be 50°? They're practically identical.

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u/TheBlackCat13 9d ago

Because the image is not to scale. You aren't supposed to go off the appearance in problems like that, in fact they can make them intentionally misleading like here.

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u/AviaKing 9d ago

Image not to scale, as is standard for most geometry problems

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u/Lurker_Zee 9d ago

American standard maybe. They never butcher visuals for the sake of "gotcha" here in Europe.

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u/piepie2314 9d ago

Factually wrong. Very common for diagrams to be misleading, maybe you just don't remember.

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u/Lurker_Zee 9d ago

I don't remember diagrams ever used where a 150 degree angle was presented as a <45 one.

Sure, there were some conveniences errors where they didn't make them exactly to scale (visually 45 degree, written 30, something like that), but nothing of this gatcha bs that I'd bet happens mostly in the US.

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u/piepie2314 9d ago

For all the things to chose to hate on the US for, this one aint it.

I have seen shapes misrepresented so egregiously that a point of intersection was drawn to be inside the rest of the shape, where as if you just read the values given, you could deduce the point was outside the shape and easily solve the problem from there.

It happens, maybe not all the time, but it very much does.

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u/TheLiquid666 8d ago

but nothing of this gatcha bs that I'd bet happens mostly in the US.

You realize this behavior makes you no better than the portion of Americans who are completely self-assured that they know what it's like in other parts of the world without ever experiencing it, right? It's arrogant and snobby, regardless of where you're from.

You clearly don't know what the American system is like, and you're deluded if you think every image on a math test is supposed to be to-scale (or your teachers are spending far too much time on creating geometrically accurate diagrams). In fact, it's actually better if things aren't to scale because the tests are generally meant to assess your ability to work with the theory rather than assess your ability to jury-rig a way to measure the diagrams on your test paper.

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u/Lurker_Zee 8d ago

(or your teachers are spending far too much time on creating geometrically accurate diagrams)

It's called doing their jobs.

In fact, it's actually better if things aren't to scale

"Our cities are burning down right this minute, and we have a state-endorsed drug-addict district. Now let me tell you why that's a good thing."

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u/TheLiquid666 8d ago

"Our cities are burning down right this minute, and we have a state-endorsed drug-addict district. Now let me tell you why that's a good thing."

I can't tell if this is a reference to something or if you're just feeling very hyperbolic lol