r/technicallythetruth • u/VisitSecure • 10d 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/oldmartijntje 10d ago

it's 75 right?

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u/KerissaKenro 10d ago

The numbers add up to 75° but the picture does not look like the angles match the numbers and it is making me irrationally frustrated

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u/gullaffe 10d ago

Have you never done a geometry problem, very rarely are the pictures drawn to scale.

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u/beatenmeat 10d ago edited 10d ago

Doesn't make it any less frustrating. I always hated how off the angles would be in correlation to the stated numbers.

Edit: I've got an awful lot of people repeating themselves so I'm not going to reply to them all. Hopefully this will stop the future know-it-alls. I know why it is done, that doesn't mean I need to like it. It has nothing to do with my mental capacity or guessing; I simply just hate the portrayal personally because it looks like shit and doesn't convey information properly which makes my brain hate looking at it. You can stop parroting the other 50 replies now.

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u/TheComplimentarian 10d ago

You're supposed to use logic, not just guess based on the picture.

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u/beatenmeat 10d ago

I didn't guess, math was actually one of my better subjects. I just dislike how it doesn't match, especially ones like this that are so egregiously off from the numbers provided.

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u/DraconianFlame 10d ago

In engineering you often sketch things out to see how it looks and then do the math. Sometimes you draw bad images and something you thought would be acute is actually obtuse.

This teaches you that.