10 lines of code per day is the global average!? -- true?

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Ok so last year I participated in a high school curriculum contest thing at a college(I currently attend this college). I actually got 1st in it but was still a bit angry I didn't get every single one right.

The most baffling of questions on there was

How many lines of code does the average programmer write per day?

A. 5
B. 10
C. 25
D. 30

Aside from being a subjective question which depended on language and everything else I was more baffled at what they had as the correct answer. 10.

Even on my bad days at my job I touch more than 10 lines of code(either adding, modifying, or deleting) per day. And when I took this test I had only programmed as a hobby where it was common for me to write a few hundred lines for one of my new projects per day. Where are they getting this random number of ten!? Is this published somewhere? A quick googling found me nothing.

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