SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong

[Albert Chan]

Hi, teenix

If we flatten the big circle as a straight line, small circle indeed travelled 3 times its perimeter.

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But, if we bent the track with its end-to-end touched, we get an extra revolution.
We can bent it to any shape, not just a big circle.

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