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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Normally you’d have a 1/4 chance of picking the correct answer.

But two of the answers are the same.

So you’ve got a 2/4 chance if the answer is 25% of getting that correct.

So what was the question?


10 posted on 11/07/2011 9:35:55 AM PST by TigerClaws
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“So you’ve got a 2/4 chance if the answer is 25% of getting that correct.”

No, because if you have a 2/4 chance (50%), then 25% is no longer the correct answer. If 50% is the correct answer, then you only have a 25% chance to pick that at random, which means that 50% is not the correct answer either.


41 posted on 11/07/2011 12:00:18 PM PST by Boogieman
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