Case Based Critical Thinking
Now that his team has been using Illustrator regularly and getting comfortable with the software, Mark is excited to work with them on some of the more interesting features and to share with them some of his special techniques.
-Mark asks his designers to picture two circles set apart from one another, then to picture a third circle added between them, positioned so that each of the outside circles overlaps the middle circle.He then asks them to picture a line - drawn with the Pen tool - that crosses horizontally through all three circles.If you were to select all three circles and the line, and then apply the Divide pathfinder, how many objects would be created?
A)6
B)8
C)10
D)12

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The Divide pathfinder splits the shapes into separate objects wherever they intersect. With three overlapping circles and a line crossing through them, the intersections create 10 separate objects.