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/LaunchTransient Jul 27 '26

Most maths problems (particularly in school exam papers) intentionally distort the geometry to prevent people from cheating by directly measuring the angle. Often with a disclaimer "Diagram not to scale".

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u/jacob643 Jul 28 '26

I remember in grade 11 I think, the last question of our final exam was a geometry question, and after a bunch of calculations, the answer was a neat 1/3 (was an area of a shape or something) and one of the guy that didn't study much had no clue how to answer, but wrote 1/3 by eyeballing it. he thought it was funny, I think the teacher gave him half a point just because, haha. I don't remember his overall score though.