What is the value of 3?

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  3 ⇒ 12

Step-by-step explanation:

Apparently "a = b" in this case is used to mean f(a) = b. It appears as though the function is ...

  f(x) = x(x+1)

Then f(3) = 3(3+1) = 3·4 = 12

Additional comment

IMO this is a poor use of the equal sign, which should be reserved for situations where the left side expression has the same value as the right side expression.

check the picture below.

well, the angle at the vertex d is clearly not a right-angle, let's check for the one at the vertex f which does look like,   however if it's indeed, that means ef is perpendicular to df, in which case their slopes will be negative reciprocal of each other.

so the negative reciprocal of the slope of ef is 1, however the slope of df is not 1, is 1/2, so nope, they're not perpendicular lines.

sine

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