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blandfordforever@lemm.ee 4 days agoEntertaining 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.
moakley@lemmy.world 4 days 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.
blandfordforever@lemm.ee 4 days 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.
moakley@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The typo makes the answer incorrect. The whole question would need to be thrown out.
blandfordforever@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Fair enough
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 days ago
But some tests award bonus points if you get the thrown out question right by answering what it should have been!