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The supplied yellow-plate image shows fourteen visible egg shapes. The printed choice “12 or 13” is not a reliable answer key: it omits the total visible when the partly hidden egg is counted.
Count in four bands
Start with the three eggs across the top. In the next band count the left egg, the partly hidden egg just left of center, the central egg and the right egg: four. The next band contains another four eggs. Finish with the three along the bottom. Three plus four plus four plus three gives fourteen.
The easy one to miss
Just left of the central egg, a partly covered egg shows its rounded upper portion. It can blend into the egg below it at a glance. Follow the separate outline rather than treating the overlapping white areas as one shape.
What this count means
This is a reading of the visible photograph, not proof of an unseen quantity behind the plate or an eyesight diagnosis. The fried-yolk pan used in another post is a different image and has a different answer.
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The supplied yellow-plate image shows fourteen visible egg shapes. The printed choice “12 or 13” is not a reliable answer key: it omits the total visible when the partly hidden egg is counted.
