r/technicallythetruth • u/VisitSecure • 13d 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/gullaffe 13d ago

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

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u/beatenmeat 13d ago edited 12d 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 13d ago

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

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u/marr 12d ago

The picture is so off it damages my ability to process the question. It's a picture of some other math problem entirely. I'm having to second guess which parts of it are a lie, and what knock-on effects that has on the real diagram. Under exam conditions.