if you were to pick randomly, the correct answer would change something you didnt pick.
meaning the chances of a random selection picking the correct answer is zero.
since your answer is not a random selection, you can input the answer as C.
lol
Help, my mind is caught in a paradoxical loop!
have you tried turning it off and on again?
I try not to day drink
It’s always nighttime somewhere
I’ve had a bit of a tumble.
Its askimg for a subscription now…
Cave Johnson prevails again!
B
The four answers sum to 100%, so on average each answer has a 25% chance of being right, and 25% is two of the options so you have a 50% chance of picking one of those
But if 50% is the right answer then you only have a 25% chance of picking that one
But if the correct answer is 50% and there is only 1/4 chance of choosing that answer at random, you then have a 25% chance of choosing it correctly. So the answer must be 25%, but there is 2/4 chance of choosing that at random so you have a 50% chance of choosing that correctly so the answer is 50%, but there is only a 1/4 chance of…
What the question is asking for, is an answer where the value and the chance of choosing it at random are the same.
None of the answers satisfy that condition, because you have a 50% chance of choosing 25%, a 25% chance of choosing 50% and a 25% chance of choosing 0%.
None of the answers match the chance of choosing it.Yeah you’re right - I presupposed there was a right answer and worked backwards
But two of those answers are the same, which reduces the number of possibilities to 3, and 33.3% isn’t an option.
That’s what’s messing with me, too. I am by no means a math genius, but that’s where I get stuck.
It doesn’t reduce the numbet of possibilities. If you had 9999 true and 1 false, the chances are not 50/50
25% chance that guessing an answer on a 4 answer question will be true. However, two of the answers say 25%, which is 50% of the possibilities, which now invalidates those answers from being correct. With only answer being correct, it invalidates 50% from being the right answer.
Well if I pick it at random the chances of typing one of those specific char strings into the keyboard is small enough to be effectively 0%
Creative interpretation of the question is a valid test taking method
This is a paper test, though… Not sure how your keyboard factors in to that 😅
Not paper to me, just a picture of paper. I suppose on paper circling a random small space would be fairly similar results though.
if the correct answer is b or c, you would be right a quarter of the time
if the correct answer is a or d you would be right half the time.
athere are 3 correct answers. assuming the correct answer is chosen at random, you would be right 1/3x1/2 + 2/3x1/4 = 1/3 of the time
e) 20%
No time to think about it! C!
Going with D. It’d be 25% for a normal question, but since it’s the second 25% this provides some evidence that I read all the answers.
2 out of 4 answers are the same, and if we say that 25% is correct then you actually have a much higher chance of selecting the correct one. I’m sure there’s some statistics crap to say it’s not 50%, but if half your random choices are correct then that seems right to me. So now 50% is correct, but it’s only 1 in 4 and the odds go back to 25%. So now it’s 0%, except that that’s ALSO on there so now the correct answer is 25% again. The problem is that ever single time 25% becomes the correct answer you now have a 50% chance to get it right if chosen randomly and it’s wrong all over again.
Yep, that’s definitely the thought process the question-asker intended. I’m sidestepping that slightly: if an answer is chosen completely at random then one should be able to completely ignore the text of the question and answer, and roll a four-sided die, leading to 25%. I agree that strategy assumes that there’s a single correct answer. And the typical expectation of a multiple choice question is to only have a single correct answer. The question itself says “the answer” not “answer(s)”, that’s perhaps a partial support of the expectation of a single correct answer. But yes, my assumption that there’s only a single correct answer, while reasonable in general, could be considered flawed considering the nature of the question itself.
The text says “the answer” and 25% having two ways to get to it does not mean there are two answers. You can’t just say you’re avoiding assumptions and then make more assumptions that are even more outlandish.
Ultimately, you can’t really side-step how impossible it is to answer it correctly. The answer is to write in “e) fuck off”
i would just pick an answer at random
C) none of the possible answers is correct if picked randomly so you have 0% chance to get it right
That makes 0% the correct answer, which means you had a 25% chance…
Nono, see your chance of picking it at random is 0% because none of the answers are right - but if you pick it intentionally, then it’s the correct answer. galaxy brain meme
That’s the actual answer tho lol
Which means I’m wrong and has no chance to get it right. All randomly picked answers are wrong. At least that’s how I’m breaking out of the infinite loop. Or there is just a typo…
But if c is right, then c is wrong.
Quantumtative Ability
Ah fuck, there goes my right to vote in Jim Crow South.
We need to know the question do we not? OP failed here. The question could change the answer.
The question is quite clear
“What is the % chance that you can guess the right answer on this multiple choice question”
i just wish we knew the intended answer… assuming this isn’t fake.
I think it’s actually 0%. Because it’s impossible to answer correctly.
But wouldn’t that make the answer 25%? Which would make the answer 50%. Which would make the answer 25%. So you get stuck in an infinite loop, except that since that makes it impossible to answer, the paradox collapses, making the true answer 0%.
Only… that would mean there’s a 25% chance of guessing it. But that means it’s still 0%… sorta?
I feel like this question is more philosophical than mathematical…
Bro. Math tests aren’t real, bro.
