Mia is standing on a crowded street corner in new york city...

Mia is standing on a crowded street corner in New York City waiting to cross the road. She can't see the traffic or the pedestrian signal. Everyone else start to walk across the street, so she assumes they know that it is safe to cross and follows their lead. This is an example of _.

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00:01 All right, let's do this one.

00:02 I'm not quite sure how to say this word, but hyacinth is standing on the curb waiting to cross 24th street.

00:09 A half a block, a half a block to her left is avenue j, and avenue k is half a block to her right.

00:18 Numbered streets run parallel to one another and are all perpendicular to lettered avenues.

00:25 If avenue p is the northernmost avenue, which direction, north, south, east, or west is she facing? all right, so this is a little confusing, but let's start with what we know.

00:38 We know we have a person named hyacinth.

00:42 Made that a little bigger.

00:44 H, we don't know where she's facing.

00:46 That's what we're trying to figure out.

00:47 We do know that she is waiting on a curb to cross 24th street.

00:52 So we'll draw a curb, and let's say this is the 24th street.

00:58 24th street, right, 24th street.

01:02 These are all arbitrary directions right now.

01:05 We're configuring this out for sure where it's north, south, and west at the moment.

01:10 We know to her left, to her left, is avenue j.

01:16 So we'll say this is avenue j, and then to her right, to her right, is avenue k, avenue k.

01:32 Now this part is important.