Can we just appreciate that this meme is visually accurate? You enter the test center looking polished like '83 Ranveer and leave looking like you fought a war against surds and indices.

The look on the right isn't frustration. It’s the face of realizing you just spent 4 minutes on one question, and you haven't even touched the logarithms part yet

Wait, the question is actually clever. If you don't instantly see x and y are conjugates, you will die calculating (x+y)^2. The whole point is testing if you recognize (x+y)^2 - xy = 10-2=8, not your ability to solve x^2