Trick questions to prevent guessing : surprising outcomes

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Video about the trick questions that math teachers sometimes include in a paper to catch guessed manipulations of given numerical values.


 
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Yeah, these are timeless test tropes but for me, the video short:



is a classic and says it all!
 
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A perfect ending. :oldtongue:
 

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