• rice_nine@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    C: 50%, you have a 1 in 4 (25%) chance of guess the correct answer but there are two correct answers so 2 in 4 = 50%.

    • matlag@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      I would answer 0%.

      You say the answer is 50%. So 25% is not the right answer to the question, right? So you only have 25% chance of randomly selecting 50%, and therefore, 50% is the wrong answer.

      So the answer is 25%, but you have 50% chance of picking 25%, so it’s wrong again.

      You can’t solve it: the answer is 0%.

      • Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        But that would mean 0% is the correct answer.

        So theres a 25% chance of picking 0% as the correct answer.

        The correct answer changes depending on what answer you picked.

        Its a Schrodingers probability question.

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          5 days ago

          If 0% is not the right answer, that confirms that no matter what you pick at random, this is not the right answer: your chances of picking it are 0.

          As much as you can loop to demonstrate the other answers are all wrong, you demonstrate 0 is the correct answer by a loop also.

      • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
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        6 days ago

        You didn’t follow what that means though. If 0% is the correct answer, a random guess has a 25% chance of hitting it. It loops.

        • matlag@sh.itjust.works
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          5 days ago

          Therefore 0 is not the right answer, and your chances of picking the right answer are 0.

          It also loops, positively this time.