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Probability (reddthat.com)
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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

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%.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    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%.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 3 months 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.

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