# Fun little geometry problem (add yours if you want)

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**Created:** [December 8, 2023, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-little-geometry-problem-add-yours-if-you-want/994312 "2023-12-08T20:22:40Z")
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### Author: ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-little-geometry-problem-add-yours-if-you-want/994312/21 "2023-12-11T21:55:34Z")

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> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> Wayyy ahead of ya

Veritasium [had a good video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUHkTs-Ipfg) on some of the background story.

There was an amusing side effect of that problem, which I’ll spoiler since it partially gives things away:

Due to the error, they ended up scoring the test as if the problem didn’t exist. Unfortunately, this meant that some people lost scholarships, etc. due to falling below a scoring threshold! For example, say there were 100 questions and a student just barely reached the 90% correct needed by some agency. But after removing the bad question, they only got 89/99 correct, or 89.9%, which isn’t quite enough.

They should have scored as if everyone got the question right.

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