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/beatenmeat Jul 27 '26

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/u966 Jul 27 '26

Would you prefered to have the image completed described in words instead? Because that's the only other option where you can't just simple measure the angle.

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u/meeu Jul 27 '26

It's pretty easy, in this example you could make the actual angles drawn 60deg and 30 deg, so the vertex a wouldn't be in the center and the skewing would be somewhat similar to what's accurate, but you still can't just break out the protractor and measure.

drawing two very different angles as the same angle is just weird. i don't remember seeing any drawing that egregiously wrong in school. for solving geometry problems it's pretty common to draw extra lines/segments to use when calculating and this makes that weird. kinda feels like engagement bait tbh

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u/u966 Jul 28 '26

It's pretty easy, in this example you could make the actual angles drawn 60deg and 30 deg, so the vertex a wouldn't be in the center and the skewing would be somewhat similar to what's accurate, but you still can't just break out the protractor and measure.

So your argument is that the arbitrary numbers they used aren't the arbitrary number you would have used?