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		ad404b8a372f2b9 on Dec 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [v... It's odd to me that anyone would come up with 3, to me it was immediately very apparent from the diagram that the closest answer was 9/2.

HarHarVeryFunny on Dec 27, 2023 [–]

I guess if you're smart enough to realize that 4 is the right answer, but isn't one of the choices, then the next question is "what were they thinking?", which is why 3 would be the smart guess to get your answer marked as correct.

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