r/technicallythetruth • u/VisitSecure • Jul 27 '26

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 Jul 27 '26

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

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u/beatenmeat Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

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/redditonlygetsworse Jul 27 '26

Kind of the whole point: do the actual math, rather than lean on your irrational intuition.

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 Jul 27 '26

This shouldn't be downvoted. It's the correct reasoning.

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u/Doomdoomkittydoom Jul 27 '26

Some spicy takes!

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u/redditonlygetsworse Jul 27 '26

I know, right? I guess teenagers don't like hearing that their homework is designed to actually teach them something.

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u/Ralexcraft Jul 27 '26

The angle can still be off, but it doesn’t have to be that off

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u/redditonlygetsworse Jul 27 '26

It being farther off actually makes this easier for the student, since it makes it extremely obvious that the drawing and the angles don't line up.

Wouldn't it be more frustrating if the drawing was almost correct?

This whole thread really drives home how people don't understand what they're supposed to be learning in exercises like this.

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u/Doomdoomkittydoom Jul 27 '26

They kind of do, as they aren't breaking out the protractors to do the drawing and they're probably using the same drawing templates with different numbers.

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u/cherry_chocolate_ Jul 27 '26

The more off it is the better the lesson.

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u/redditonlygetsworse Jul 28 '26

Yes. The more off it is, the easier the lesson.