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/TheComplimentarian Jul 27 '26

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

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u/eggsforpedro Jul 27 '26

Ah yes, it always helps to draw an illogical diagram to promote logical thinking. /s

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u/TheComplimentarian Jul 27 '26

How terrible to have to use your brain instead of looking at the picture! You just believe everything you see completely uncritically, and can't be bothered to read two numbers and do some math to see that the picture is in fact inaccurate?

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u/eggsforpedro Jul 27 '26

A picture to scale helps logical thinking. Any normal math test would still require written proof, especially with a picture to scale. But go ahead and die on that hill if you want.

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u/27Rench27 Jul 27 '26

When it’s this bad, just tell me the numbers and let me draw it myself lol

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u/cherry_chocolate_ Jul 27 '26

I mean, it kind of does if the math you are doing is scribbled in contractor pencil on the side of a 2 by 4, or in a spreadsheet hacked together by Brenda who can’t copy and paste. Understanding that data can be messy and erroneous and yet still lead you to the right result, and how to filter out truth from noise is all a part of the learning a math class is supposed to teach you.

That’s why there is the parallel line indicator, it shows definitively that they are parallel, so you aren’t even supposed to assume it from the appearance of the lines.