• masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Maybe the answer is 100% Because it depends on how and when you ask/answer.

    My opinion: The question isn’t asking you which of the options is the correct answer, it’s asking what your odds are of choosing the correct answer. Regardless of the value of the choices.

    The question is asking for a value. Not one of the following letter choice.

    Without knowing the correct answer, assuming one is correct, a random guess out of 4 choice answers would be a 1 in 4 chance. 25%

    If 25 is the correct blind answer, then, because this prof is trying to be funny, it becomes depending how you look at it, 2 in 4. Which makes it 50 which makes the odds 1 in 4.

    Also, by selecting any one the only option is correct or incorrect. So 50/50

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          None of the answers are correct. If the answer were 25%, then it couldn’t be 25% because there’s a 50% chance of picking it at random, which contradicts our supposition. Similarly the answer cannot be 50% because there’s a 25% chance of picking it. The answer isn’t 60% because there isn’t a 60% chance of picking it.

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        4 months ago

        But it’s correct because 25 and 50 are there.

        Also, prob-a-bil-i-ty.

        You don’t know the answers when trying to determine it.