If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct?

fiveub · 16 Feb 2013 at 14:25

If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct?

A) 25%
B) 50%
C) 60%
D) 25%

panyan · 16 Feb 2013 at 14:26

E - abstain

(there are 4 options but two are the same, so you have three options and none of the answers are 1/3 so the true answer is 0%

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Goodie · 16 Feb 2013 at 14:27

I believe you will have a 1 in 4 chance of getting it correct..

zipp0r · 16 Feb 2013 at 14:28

edit
B) 50%

cos you have x2 25's

PixelChef · 16 Feb 2013 at 14:29

Depends what the answer is, if the answer is 25% then you have a 50% chance, otherwise 25% chance

No?

Grrrrr · 16 Feb 2013 at 14:32

Hehe very good

Ricochet J · 16 Feb 2013 at 14:32

B) 50%

You're either right or wrong.

~>Dg<~ · 16 Feb 2013 at 14:33

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doofer · 16 Feb 2013 at 14:34

5UB said:
If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct ?

A) 25%
B) 50%
C) 60%
D) 25%

If I choose a random answer then I am 100% correct.

Pho · 16 Feb 2013 at 15:15

Also if the answer isn't any of those then 0%, or if it's all of them then 100%.

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MORE SPEED · 16 Feb 2013 at 15:31

If its continuous, i.e. never exactly a whole %, then its 0. If the answer isn't included in the list its 0. If it is in the list, then its 1/3.

I think

Cosimo · 16 Feb 2013 at 15:44

There are no correct answers.

arknor · 16 Feb 2013 at 15:44

5UB said:
If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct ?

A) 25%
B) 50%
C) 60%
D) 25%

I'm guessing at random.
I am either wrong or right.
50/50

Bloomfield · 16 Feb 2013 at 15:45

Ricochet J said:
B) 50%

You're either right or wrong.

If the answer if 50% then you only have a 25% chance of guessing right, which means the answer is 25%, which means you have a 50% chance of getting it right

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cm1179 · 16 Feb 2013 at 15:48

WHAT QUESTION SIR

mmj_uk · 16 Feb 2013 at 15:53

I would say 0% because the questioner decides which answer is correct and these types of questions are aimed primarily at making the answerer look stupid when they get it wrong.

Randomface74 · 16 Feb 2013 at 15:55

I don't know that any of the answers are correct. So it's impossible to say.

If 25% is the correct answer, the question becomes Meta - because that option appears twice, meaning I have a 50% chance of randomly selecting that answer. If I know this information, I become tempted to favour B as the correct answer - because of the 50% chance. If I know this information then I have a 25% chance of randomly selecting B - which means the actual correct answer is 25%. This cycle can go on for ever.

If I'm not selecting an answer at random. The answer is 100% - which isn't one of the options. Meaning I have 0% chance of selecting it. Don't even try to go Meta on that because 0% isn't an option either.

It's all irrelevant though, because I don't even know if ANY of the options are correct.

arknor · 16 Feb 2013 at 15:56

Bloomfield said:
If the answer if 50% then you only have a 25% chance of guessing right, which means the answer is 25%, which means you have a 50% chance of getting it right .

but you arent taking an educated guess you are choosing a random answer without taking the question or answers into consideration ?

Bloomfield · 16 Feb 2013 at 16:22

arknor said:
but you arent taking an educated guess you are choosing a random answer without taking the question or answers into consideration ?

The answer isn't a guess, it's the chance of a guess being correct which you're supposed to work out.

That's how I read it anyway, and since it was 5UB that posted it I'm guessing what I posted is what he intended

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arknor · 16 Feb 2013 at 16:51

it's not random if you work out the answer ?