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wow there's like five different answers to that...
what's funny is that I would think the teacher was trying to imply that B) is the right answer but it's not...lol
If you look at it from a perspective of a straight up random selection of 4 possible answers it's 25%.
However, 25% is two of the possible answers, so it would be 50%...
However, 50% is one of the possible answers also, so it would be 75%.
However, 75% is not a possible answer, so it would be 0%....
Jaden
what's funny is that I would think the teacher was trying to imply that B) is the right answer but it's not...lol
If you look at it from a perspective of a straight up random selection of 4 possible answers it's 25%.
However, 25% is two of the possible answers, so it would be 50%...
However, 50% is one of the possible answers also, so it would be 75%.
However, 75% is not a possible answer, so it would be 0%....
Jaden
I see what you are saying but if a random draw on 4 possible answers ,,,the answer is 25%. It doesn't matter what the other choices are. That's a trap to read any other answer other than 25%. they mean nada.
The whole point of this one is that there is no correct answer given those choices. Made me think tho.
The answers are not evenly distributed. There's a 50% chance of randomly choosing "25%" and 25% of choosing one of the other two.
There is no answer to the question. It's a paradox.
I think your math might be a little off. You can't count the real answer into the question's hypothesis. You still have a 1 in 4 chance when answering randomly. But, because the values of two of the choices are the same, you could say you have a 2 in 4 chance to get in right. The answer is 50%.
The chance of you randomly choosing the 50% answer is 25%. The chance of you randomly picking one of the 25% answers is 50%.
Ain't no correct answer IMO! A real mind-bender! Like this guy:
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No kidding.....why would ANYONE drink Keystone?
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I had to go back and read it carefully again. I changed my thoughts on this.
If you was to choose a answer randomly out of the answers provided,,and want to know what the % is of getting it correct.
There is a correct answer ,,,,,,,,,,,and that answer is 50%.
We all know the answer to picking random out of 4 choices is 25% ,,but since the correct answer of 25% is in the choices twice. It makes the correct answer in this scenario 50%.
That is the % of picking 25% at random out of these 4 choices.
I'm sticking to it this time!!! lol What do I win???
Edited from here on: I not going to change my response here with this edit. But I see now,,if the answer is 50%,,it's only on there once so the answer is 25%,,and it's on there twice,,,,so the answer is 50%,and its only on there once,,,,, ect,,,,,
NM ,,, I give up.
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If two options are the same, the chance of picking any one of them is not 25%. The chance of picking A or D, which is the same answer, is 50%. 2 out of 4.
But that's only a sidenote. The real point is that there is no answer.
The question is:
"If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct?"
So first you have to figure out what the right answer is then calculate the chances of guessing it. But what is the correct answer?
It's a self-referential paradox like "this sentence is false".