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I was going to say, if this were in a Layton game there would be some trick answer like his face.
That's easy. The answer is A: 2024. The other answers would require either the zero or the four to be plural.
Yeah, if you understand the basics of the English language. Many English and foreign-English native speakers don't, and that makes their learning that much more spicy
I honestly feel bad for anyone who has to learn English as anything other than their first language. I don't know if there's any other languages where there are so many exceptions to every rule of pronunciation, spelling, and grammar.
It's oddly easy to learn once you've got the basics, I haven't learned a third language but I did start actively communicating in English just by playing Minecraft.
I suspect it's because of verbs, you just have two or three words for each verb and just add "-d", "-ed", " have" or "had" on them.
In romance languages conjugations vary depending on context/time, first/second/third person, whether the subject is singular or plurar and their gender.
B: 0044 is both plural which is as consistent as A: 2024
I think he's saying that the clue would need to be "two zeroes, two fours"
It's actually 
4
That's what always bothered me about exams. They're always about what the examiner wants to hear and not about what is right.
Go into a Math based field. No more trying to read your professor's personalities to figure out what their opinions are so you can bullshit them into a good grade. Just cold, hard numbers. Often many ways to get to the same answer, but at the end, you are either right, or you are wrong.
I can't stand subjective questions. How the fuck are you going to tell me that my interpretation of an abstract concept is wrong?! I'll stick with numbers, thank you.
ehhh then they subtract points if you do not use the same method of resolution as their solution
Wasn't 'Feather or lead?' one of the sphinxes questions? The correct answer depended on how hungry the sphinx was.
I found my people. I always did well in English class, but I hated it, and liked math and science more for that exact reason. There is no intepretation or better answer, there is a exact method to get the right answer and you can easily check/prove why you're right. No tricks or suprises, what you see is what you get, purely facts.
Now, I can write essays just fine, and I even enjoy them if it's a topic I choose to write about. But those shitty standards of learning tests that we'd do in grade school fucking killed me. I was so suprised that I liked my college Lit course, we didn't do bullshit like that, it was all about group discussion and intepretation of what we read that day.
Teaching just to meet standards really needs HEAVY reform/revision.
there is a exact method to get the right answer and you can easily check/prove why you're right.
There might be many methods to get the right answer, and you might not know which ones are easy and which are really difficult (and which are tricky enough to make mistakes more likely) until you try a few different approaches and maybe hit a few dead ends.
What is the sum of every integer from 1 to 99? Well, you can manually apply the arithmetic, adding two numbers at a time, but that's going to take forever. Better to use a particular method of summing arithmetic sequences and get an easy answer in fewer steps.
Or take this deceptively simple looking problem of trying to integrate x to the x power, where the question asker is messing up their initial approach and the answers show several different concepts that are useful for solving.
With actually difficult problems, the difference between a good approach and a bad one can be the difference between the problem being actually solvable versus not solvable using the resources to have at your disposal (computing power, actual time, etc.).
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So just put what the examiner is thinking, obviously
School trains you for real life. Repeat back what your boss told you, in a confident enough way to make it sound like you understand what's happening.
Exactly
sounds like you went to a bad school. not all of us had that experience.
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optimism : every answer is right
Pessimism : every answer is wrong
Physicists: all three answers are both right and wrong up until the point when they are evaluated.
Schrodingers multiple choice?
I would go with C, because:
A) Not filled
B) Doesn't have 4 sides/corners (or sum of angles is less than 360 deg.)
C) Isn't red AND the only shape with all right(ish) angles
So C is most unlike the others.
C does have 4 sides and 4 corners and all of its corners add up to 360°, same as A since the interior angles of all quadrilaterals add up to 360°
C is regular, A and B are irregular
I think OP is saying it doesn't have smooth sides or corners and is not a quad at all, but actually an irregular polygon due to the jittered sides and overlapping corners.
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I would also go with C, but for different reasons:
A) is the only one not filled in
B) is the only three sided
C) can partner easily with A and B
so C because he's the most chill
But all of them can equally be partnered with any other, because if you don't count the right angle difference they all have the same amount of differences and are equally "chill".
Oh! I genuinely did not notice color. Fair point.
I still think Rectangle-chan gives spicy BigBoi vibes that I jell with more, but I respect the correction
Green color and less pointy corners definitely makes it look more friendly.
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Reminds of the game Set. It's a card game, but there are many online versions. I loved this game while growing up.
Good game
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Pick the gender fluid one.
This new captcha is less annoying than the one before
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