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If you assume the problem is correct, in other words one and only one of the four answers is correct, then you have to exclude the two identical answers (25%).
by credit_guy 15y ago
If you assume the problem is correct, in other words one and only one of the four answers is correct, then you have to exclude the two identical answers (25%). You are left with 50% and 60%. You pick one of them at random, and the chance to be correct is 50%.
If you start with the assumption that the problem is wrong, then ... it's wrong.
- wlievens 15y agoOnly if by "correct" you mean "an answer such that all others are incorrect". That's a very narrow definition. It works in this case though.