• blandfordforever@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Entertaining response but I disagree.

    I’m going to say that unless you’re allowed to select more than one answer, the correct answer is 25%. That’s either a or d.

    By doing something other than guessing randomly (seeing that 1 in 4 is 25% and that this answer appears twice), you now have a 50% chance of getting the answer correct. However, that doesn’t change the premise that 1 in 4 answers is correct. It’s still 25%, a or d.

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      1 day ago

      That’s an interesting perspective. The odds of correctly guessing any multiple choice question with four answers should be 25%. But that assumes no duplicate answers, so I still say that’s wrong.

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        23 hours ago

        I’m going to double down and say that on a real life test, this would likely represent a typo. In such case, I think you could successfully defend a 25% answer while a 60% answer is just right out the window, straight to jail.