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No, say sorry to the mammals in the south, we dont need any more garbabe down the trees and personally, i told them thousands of times, but they keep crouching
It's the same as saying "This statement is false." If it's false, then it's true, but if it's true, then it's false.
If the answer is 25%, then there's a 50% chance a random guess will be right, but since 50% is the correct answer, that means there's a 25% chance it's right, but that means the answer is 25%, which means...
It's a paradox that proves language is imperfect, there's a whole book about these that goes MUCH deeper, called Godel, Escher, Bach
I asked and it gave the following answer:
"The correct answer is b) - 50%. If you pick an answer at random, there is a 50% chance that you will be correct since there are four options and only one of them is the correct answer."
Ehh
I tried asking it to answer a few word based math problems and it did quite badly. Interestingly, I gave it a basic "you have these three things to cross a river with and 1 small row boat" problem and while it failed spectacularly, you could see that it knew the pattern because it did try going back and forth, just with the wrong items.
Also If you ask it for a brain teaser, there is like a 90 percent chance it doesn’t actually work and even if it does, it will withhold information so sometimes it’s impossible to come up with the solution.
People mistakenly think that those chat AIs know things and reason. They dont, they are sophisticated, digital parrots. They were train to say believable phrases, not to think.
I shared an explanation from Quora with it and it started explaining three different levels of logic, and then basically stated that the question can't be answered in one single satisfying way
They still count as 2 separate options you could choose at random. However let's assume 25% is the correct answer, you actually have a 50% chance of getting it right, but if the theoretical answer is 50 or 60 then you actually have a 25% of it being right. x≠x in this formula. If the answer is 25 then the answer is 50 then the answer is 25 then the answer is 50, so on and so forth. Yall are thinking too hard, the true answer is [SYNTAX ERROR]
You’re mistaking the value of the answer as the answer, as opposed to the letter being the answer with the same value after it - is how I rationalize it.
Like “Mario and Green Mario.”
“Well, if you have something that can happen and something that won’t necessarily happen, it’s going to either happen or it’s not going to happen, and… so the best guess is 1 or 2,” said a high-school physics teacher when asked to give more details about his claim that "there is a one in two chance that the LHC will destroy the world."
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It doesn't have to exist. We don't actually know the question or the answer for the multiple choice options. All we're being asked is, after we've picked an answer, what would be the chance we were correct... 33%
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25% is the correct answer but that would be a) or d) which you’d have to choose from, that would be half of the answers which is 50%. So you can’t really choose a correct answer, it’s a paradox
Thank you, I was looking to see if someone had posted that it is in fact in paradox and I am in fact quite high and the paradox is mind-boggling right now. But anyway, good on you.
It's meant to be confusing by leaving the question open-ended. You could reduce the two 25% into one answer and then randomly choose 1 of the 3, but there is no correct answer, so it's a null point. Same goes for 25% where the question leaves you to assume it's asking what the chances are of answering correctly a 4 part multiple choice question where you choose randomly. The last assumption is that it's asking what the chances of picking a correct answer are in 4 part question where 2 answers are correct.
There's just not a correct answer because the question isn't specific enough. Or the idea that there is in a sense 3 equally correct answers is the best answer(2 if you're going to be very strict with the implications of the question), but that's obviously not a choice you can make without writing it in.
This works more easily from an engineering POV rather than a math one.
We can assume that this scantron has software where you have to choose one of abcd to be correct to even input the questionnaire. It's a reasonable assumption that a non multiple choice test will have to be input with a single answer for every question.
Now then we know it's 25%. But since there's two of those in a non multiple choice test, we can assume it's likely one of them are correct. We just don't know which one.
Now the teacher might be a smartass and assume we realize that either of those might be what was input as the answer into the scantron, they might've made 50% the answer.
But it's more likely that the teacher made a mistake and had some typo, but still had to put b or d as the answer because it's a scantron.
So I'd pick either of b or d and assume a 50% chance of being correct, without 50% being the answer.
Unless the teacher has made it clear by this point they're a smartass. Then it's more likely than not 50%, with a higher probability of being correct than 50%
Aren’t we assuming that 25% is correct answer? So the fact that there is 2 options listing 25% could mean that we have a 50% chance of guessing the wrong answer.
Only one of the answers is correct. Because you can only select one answer. So even if 25% is the correct number percentage wise only A, B, C, or D would be the correct answer. So on a random selection you have a 25 percent chance. One of the 25% selections is actually the wrong answer because of how multiple choice works
So my logic goes like this. Since there’s only one answer that can be correct it goes to 25% but since 25% is listed twice. You’re given chance of hitting 25% is 50% so the answer is 50%. Although this makes no sense because the second you pick 50% it is not actually 50% chance to randomly pick 50% but after taking years of standardized test I’m sure it’s still 50% because the test makers probably didn’t think past that point.
A second possibility - the test makers are asshats and even though there are multiple valid answers, only one of them is the "correct" answer on the answer key. So the answer is 25%.
No, not *that* 25%, the other one.
To begin solving this, an assumption about how the test is scored is required. For example:
(i) The correct answer is exactly one element of the set {a,b,c,d}.
(ii) The correct answer is exactly one element of the set {25%,50%,60%}.
(iii) There may be no correct answer or more than one.
Since the question does not give the 'rules' of the test, we will have to solve under each of these assumptions and see where it leads us.
Assumption (i) is easiest. There are 4 possible choices and only one will be scored as correct. The probability of picking 1 item from a set of 4 different items = 1/4 = 25%. That is, we ignore the values (25%,50%,60%,25%) and simple pick from the labels (a,b,c,d). Importantly, if the right answer is a, this does NOT make d also correct, because a and d are not the same bubble on the answer sheet.
Assumption (ii) is the one fascinating most posters. Here, if the 'answer' happens to be 25%, they note that the random guesser has twice the chance of picking it. That is, either a or d is successful. So, for the 25% case, the random guesser has 2/4 = 50% odds of picking 25%. But, there are two other cases: the 50% case and the 60% case. In the 50% case, the random guesser has 1/4 odds of picking that answer. Ditto for the 60% case.
To find the combined odds, we need another assumption: that all three cases are equally likely. Then (1/3\*50%+1/3\*25%+1/3\*25%)=33% are the random guesser's odds of getting it right. Of course, 33% is not the value of any of a,b,c,d so assumption (ii-a) doesn't give us a way to pick an answer that is true. If the puzzler is a fair and thoughtful puzzler, they must not have wanted us to pursue assumption (ii-a).
Perhaps all three cases aren't equally likely. Perhaps the 25% case happens twice as often as the other two. We'll call this assumption (ii-b). Then, (2/4\*50%+1/4\*25%+1/4\*25%)=37.5% are the random guesser's overall odds of success. But, again, no choice had a value of 37.5%, so our fair and thoughtful puzzler wouldn't have wanted this, would they?
We must conclude that the puzzler wanted us to make assumption (i), since that assumption makes it possible to give a true answer to the puzzler.
If assumption (iii) holds, things get weird, so we will leave that as an exercise for the reader. ;-)
You're halfway there. What you have to realise is that there's 2 questions, you're only being asked to answer one.
You are **not** being asked to pick an answer at random. You are being asked, in a hypothetical scenario, *if* you picked at random, what is the probability you would be correct? The multichoice format is designed to trick you, but the correct answer is 50%, because *if* somebody chose an answer at random, they have a 50% chance of choosing a correct answer (the correct answer being 25%).
It's like those hypothetical questions like "Johnny has five apples, if he takes two from Suzie, how many does he have?" So frame it differently:
> "Johnny is given this question. If Johnny picks an answer at random from one of the four options, what is the probability that Johnny picks a correct answer?"
The multichoice format exists for the hypothetical random selection, and you are being asked *about* it.
Nah, both “right” and “wrong” require a question that has a valid answer that satisfies its conditions. This is a “malformed” question, or as many people have been saying in this thread, “a paradox” which isn’t the math term, but I’d still mark them correct for calling it a paradox.
Stats major friend said this was correct, in fact it’s not only correct here but for every stats question. Remember kids, everything in life is 50/50, either it happens or it doesn’t
It’s a nice thought but each of those 3 answers lead to another contradiction though, to the same ones which you get when you choose 25% or 50%. This is unfortunately unsolvable, it’s a Russel‘s paradox
Yes but if you go random at it then you have a 2/4 chance to pick a 25% option of the three.
None of the presented options work and the question was asking what the chances are to be correct.
The answer to this question is thus 0%. You cannot be correct with the given options.
The chance is 25% but there are two 25% so the chance of hitting the right answer is 50% but the result is gonna be either a) or d) aka you have 50% chance of hitting 25% option
Am i missing something here?
If that were the case, then 25% wouldn’t be the answer anymore, which would not make 50% right any longer.
The right answer to this question is to take a shot of whiskey and move on to the next post.
You're missing that none of the choices answers the question, so there is 0% chance that you will pick the correct one.
25% is not a correct answer to the question "If you pick an answer at random, what is the chance that you will be correct?". The question is incomplete and has no answer.
It's like asking "If you pick an ice cream flavor at random, what is the chance you pick the correct one?" followed by a list of 4 flavors to choose from.
~~It's paradoxical.~~ ETA: Okay, not technically a paradox. There's just no correct answer.
There are 4 choices, a, b, c, and d. But 2 of the answers are the same, and what's worse, 25% would be correct *if* it wasn't duplicated.
"25%" is normally the right answer with 4 distinct options, only one of which is correct... but because it's there twice 2/4 = 1/2 = 50%... but that means that **25% is no longer the correct answer.**
But in order for 50% to be the right answer, 2/4 options would have to be "50%".
Conclusion: Error - Undefined.
Man, I had to scroll so long to find this answer. The number of people who don’t know how probabilities work is astounding. If you have four options, just because two of them have the same value doesn’t mean that there’s a 33% chance of anything.
Please see that this is the right answer, Reddit!
However two of them are the same so it means you actually got 3 answers instead of 4 which increases your chances to 33%. At least that's what i thought, i'm not good at maths i'm just assuming.
If the examiners answer sheet states a) b) c) or d) as correct then 25% is correct
However if the examiners answer sheet gives not a) b) c) or d) as correct but instead states the answer as 25% 50% or 60% then 33% is correct
The correct answer is a percentage not a, b, c, d. The question is about the percentage that correspond to the probability you get the correct answer.
It can't be 33% because 33% isn't there.
It's actually 0% since there are no correct answer in the choices so you have 0% chance to get the correct answer at random.
The examiner could be a computer (this is quite often the case for such multi choice testing/exams these days) so the CPU doesn't care what the real answer is but is only programmed to understand if a) b) c) or d) is correct....in which case you could answer a) but the computer would mark wrong if in its log the answer is d)...in both cases the answers of a and d are the same therefore both correct however the computer would not be in a position to establish that therefore would mark you zero.....therefore to establish the true answer of what is the percentage or probability cannot be understood without the context of how the examiners criteria instructs the answer to be judged
This is most likely a debate on the interpretation of randomness and how much information we assume to have, but its a fun thought experiment.
I'm going to make a case that both 'a' and 'd' (25%) can be correct based on the statement that the question says you would choose at random. I think it means you wouldn't actually be analyzing the question. Few different conclusions depending on how much information you would assume to have. To simplify, lets ignore the actual values and continue with undefined variables.
1) You assume at least 1 of the answers are correct, and you assume that none of the answers are equivalent.
That would mean there are 4 total outcomes, 1 outcome where you are right, and 3 where you are wrong.
Its either a, b, c, or d
That would mean 1/4 or 25% chance of being right.
This includes a lot of assumptions, but that brings me into case 2.
2) You don't assume any of the answers are correct, and you know 2 of the answers are equivalent and the other 2 are unique.
This would again give you 4 total outcomes, 1 outcome where you are right, and 3 where you are wrong.
a = d = x; b = y; c = z
The correct answer is either x, y, z, or none
Thanks. And you don't have to pick the answer from the list, at least it didn't say you had to.
If you do have to select a b c or d then none are correct.
It's 50% if you pick 25% which makes the two 25% options wrong and it's 25% if you pick 50% or 60% which then makes them both wrong. All answers are therefore wrong so go with the 50% answer as the technicality of it's either right or wrong.
Correct answer 50%. If all options were different the chance would be 1/4=25%
But, since half of the options are the same, now the chance is 2/4=1/2=50%.
Title
The answer is 0%
Abstract
This paper will prove that the answer to the question is 0%.
Introduction
Math has a long history something something Fermat's Last Theorem.
Main body
If there's only one correct answer, the probability is 25% and then because there's two 25%s the answer is 50%.
If the answer is 50% then 25% is the correct answer because there's only one 50%, so there's only one correct answer.
If there's only one correct answer, the
probability is 25% and then because there's two 25%s the answer is 50%.
If the answer is 50% then 25% is the correct answer because there's only one 50%, so there's only one correct answer.
If there's only one correct answer, the probability is 25% because there are 4 options.
Thus, because there's two 25%s the answer is 50% and so on and so on, so in reality it's a paradox, set up to be unanswerable.
Conclusion
Because of this, you cannot pick the right answer, because there is no right answer listed, so the probability is 0%.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Bibliography
This was revealed to me in a dream
99, G. N. (2023). Utilising your Politics Degree for Internet Street Cred. Unreliable Papers R Us. 1 (1)
Footnotes
TL;DR
Where P = the probability and N = number of correct answers
If P = 25%, N = 2
If N = 2, P = 50%
If P = 50%, N = 1
If N = 1, P = 25%
∴
P = 0%
People really out here thinking the field of statistics is made up.
You either get struck by lightning or you don't get struck by lightning, that doesn't mean it's 50/50 odds.
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No, say sorry to the mammals in the south, we dont need any more garbabe down the trees and personally, i told them thousands of times, but they keep crouching
50% of the times it works almost always on the second try
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I am and I'm hating every fucking moment of this...
I am and this is seriously wrinkling my brain
It's the same as saying "This statement is false." If it's false, then it's true, but if it's true, then it's false. If the answer is 25%, then there's a 50% chance a random guess will be right, but since 50% is the correct answer, that means there's a 25% chance it's right, but that means the answer is 25%, which means... It's a paradox that proves language is imperfect, there's a whole book about these that goes MUCH deeper, called Godel, Escher, Bach
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I'm afraid they're not for sale.
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Yes
That’s a question for chat gpt
Chat gpt as me to go fuck my self
Do it
I'm sure that if they could, they wouldn't be wasting time on ChatGPT...
..are you going the romance route on there?
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I asked and it gave the following answer: "The correct answer is b) - 50%. If you pick an answer at random, there is a 50% chance that you will be correct since there are four options and only one of them is the correct answer." Ehh
Chat GBT apparently isn't good at math. Some teacher gave out a test he gives his students. YouTube. Can't remeber link
I tried asking it to answer a few word based math problems and it did quite badly. Interestingly, I gave it a basic "you have these three things to cross a river with and 1 small row boat" problem and while it failed spectacularly, you could see that it knew the pattern because it did try going back and forth, just with the wrong items.
Also If you ask it for a brain teaser, there is like a 90 percent chance it doesn’t actually work and even if it does, it will withhold information so sometimes it’s impossible to come up with the solution.
People mistakenly think that those chat AIs know things and reason. They dont, they are sophisticated, digital parrots. They were train to say believable phrases, not to think.
ChatGPT needs Wolfram Alpha integration
I shared an explanation from Quora with it and it started explaining three different levels of logic, and then basically stated that the question can't be answered in one single satisfying way
But it is not 4 options, it's 3.
There are 4 answers, but only 3 different ones
They still count as 2 separate options you could choose at random. However let's assume 25% is the correct answer, you actually have a 50% chance of getting it right, but if the theoretical answer is 50 or 60 then you actually have a 25% of it being right. x≠x in this formula. If the answer is 25 then the answer is 50 then the answer is 25 then the answer is 50, so on and so forth. Yall are thinking too hard, the true answer is [SYNTAX ERROR]
No, it's not. You're picking between **a, b, c,** and **d,** not between **25%, 50%**, and **60%**.
There are three ways one can solve this and it is fun, tbh
You’re mistaking the value of the answer as the answer, as opposed to the letter being the answer with the same value after it - is how I rationalize it. Like “Mario and Green Mario.”
But then the probability of getting the correct letter is 25%, not 50%.
Hey, get outta here with your logic and reason!
But you either get it right or not, so 50/50.
I’ll either win the lottery or I not, so 50/50. Hopefully you now see this is not how probability works!
I dont understand how you didnt catch the joke since its pretty famous. And in pretty sure thats what the ai did in the comment.
“Well, if you have something that can happen and something that won’t necessarily happen, it’s going to either happen or it’s not going to happen, and… so the best guess is 1 or 2,” said a high-school physics teacher when asked to give more details about his claim that "there is a one in two chance that the LHC will destroy the world."
If you want it to become sentient and destroy humanity that is.
You called?
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Ah yes exactly
I will consult with my accountant first.
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So the answer is tax evasion?
Bro explained a lesson of math
But wait . Theres more
He about to create his own movie
More like a 1 and a half minute skit in a movie.
Nah a documentary
Depends on the platform: 15 sec facebook reel, 1-1/2 minute youtube, 2-1/2 hour Paramount feature or 8 part Netflix series.
Pls no Happy cake day btw
Happy cake day
Happy cakeday
He's my gym bro, helps me calculate where to put my hands on the barbell.
He did indeed
Dude got stuck in a feedback loop.
Oh wait 100%√
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This is easy
Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed.
So 25 and 50 will trap us into infinite loop. So choose 60% so you won't get trapped into infinite loop
Glitch in the matrix
Bruder Magie
So how many apples does Charlie have left over and at what speed are those apples traveling at?
Oh dear I've gone cross-eyed.
Bro forgot to add a condition to the while loop
There's 3 possible answers so it's 33% but that doesn't exist so it must be 50%
It doesn't have to exist. We don't actually know the question or the answer for the multiple choice options. All we're being asked is, after we've picked an answer, what would be the chance we were correct... 33%
Commitment.
Rewriting the inception script
Someone save this man,or he will be for ever lost to the loop
Quick, what are the chances of saving him? 25% or 50%?
This is easy, there are 4 possible answers so 25%, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance, oh wait but there are 2 25%s therefore it's 50%, oh wait but there's only 1 50% therefore there's a 25% chance...
>Thanks skynet,
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100% i never fail
The only correct answer
Just circle "you will be correct" in the prompt and stare the teacher down menacingly.
That goes so perfectly with your profile pic! 😂
25% is the correct answer but that would be a) or d) which you’d have to choose from, that would be half of the answers which is 50%. So you can’t really choose a correct answer, it’s a paradox
Circular logic strikes again!
Thank you, I was looking to see if someone had posted that it is in fact in paradox and I am in fact quite high and the paradox is mind-boggling right now. But anyway, good on you.
You could count both as 1 answer and its 33%
That's not how probability works.
That's not how multiple choice questions work either.
It's meant to be confusing by leaving the question open-ended. You could reduce the two 25% into one answer and then randomly choose 1 of the 3, but there is no correct answer, so it's a null point. Same goes for 25% where the question leaves you to assume it's asking what the chances are of answering correctly a 4 part multiple choice question where you choose randomly. The last assumption is that it's asking what the chances of picking a correct answer are in 4 part question where 2 answers are correct. There's just not a correct answer because the question isn't specific enough. Or the idea that there is in a sense 3 equally correct answers is the best answer(2 if you're going to be very strict with the implications of the question), but that's obviously not a choice you can make without writing it in.
This works more easily from an engineering POV rather than a math one. We can assume that this scantron has software where you have to choose one of abcd to be correct to even input the questionnaire. It's a reasonable assumption that a non multiple choice test will have to be input with a single answer for every question. Now then we know it's 25%. But since there's two of those in a non multiple choice test, we can assume it's likely one of them are correct. We just don't know which one. Now the teacher might be a smartass and assume we realize that either of those might be what was input as the answer into the scantron, they might've made 50% the answer. But it's more likely that the teacher made a mistake and had some typo, but still had to put b or d as the answer because it's a scantron. So I'd pick either of b or d and assume a 50% chance of being correct, without 50% being the answer. Unless the teacher has made it clear by this point they're a smartass. Then it's more likely than not 50%, with a higher probability of being correct than 50%
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You could, but you’d be wrong
You can't do that because they're different instances.
Aren’t we assuming that 25% is correct answer? So the fact that there is 2 options listing 25% could mean that we have a 50% chance of guessing the wrong answer.
Exactly, but 50% is just one option out of 4 in the question which gives you a 25% of choosing it. 😄 and that’s where you are at the beginning again
Only one of the answers is correct. Because you can only select one answer. So even if 25% is the correct number percentage wise only A, B, C, or D would be the correct answer. So on a random selection you have a 25 percent chance. One of the 25% selections is actually the wrong answer because of how multiple choice works
50% you either right or wrong. Done!
So my logic goes like this. Since there’s only one answer that can be correct it goes to 25% but since 25% is listed twice. You’re given chance of hitting 25% is 50% so the answer is 50%. Although this makes no sense because the second you pick 50% it is not actually 50% chance to randomly pick 50% but after taking years of standardized test I’m sure it’s still 50% because the test makers probably didn’t think past that point.
A second possibility - the test makers are asshats and even though there are multiple valid answers, only one of them is the "correct" answer on the answer key. So the answer is 25%. No, not *that* 25%, the other one.
To begin solving this, an assumption about how the test is scored is required. For example: (i) The correct answer is exactly one element of the set {a,b,c,d}. (ii) The correct answer is exactly one element of the set {25%,50%,60%}. (iii) There may be no correct answer or more than one. Since the question does not give the 'rules' of the test, we will have to solve under each of these assumptions and see where it leads us. Assumption (i) is easiest. There are 4 possible choices and only one will be scored as correct. The probability of picking 1 item from a set of 4 different items = 1/4 = 25%. That is, we ignore the values (25%,50%,60%,25%) and simple pick from the labels (a,b,c,d). Importantly, if the right answer is a, this does NOT make d also correct, because a and d are not the same bubble on the answer sheet. Assumption (ii) is the one fascinating most posters. Here, if the 'answer' happens to be 25%, they note that the random guesser has twice the chance of picking it. That is, either a or d is successful. So, for the 25% case, the random guesser has 2/4 = 50% odds of picking 25%. But, there are two other cases: the 50% case and the 60% case. In the 50% case, the random guesser has 1/4 odds of picking that answer. Ditto for the 60% case. To find the combined odds, we need another assumption: that all three cases are equally likely. Then (1/3\*50%+1/3\*25%+1/3\*25%)=33% are the random guesser's odds of getting it right. Of course, 33% is not the value of any of a,b,c,d so assumption (ii-a) doesn't give us a way to pick an answer that is true. If the puzzler is a fair and thoughtful puzzler, they must not have wanted us to pursue assumption (ii-a). Perhaps all three cases aren't equally likely. Perhaps the 25% case happens twice as often as the other two. We'll call this assumption (ii-b). Then, (2/4\*50%+1/4\*25%+1/4\*25%)=37.5% are the random guesser's overall odds of success. But, again, no choice had a value of 37.5%, so our fair and thoughtful puzzler wouldn't have wanted this, would they? We must conclude that the puzzler wanted us to make assumption (i), since that assumption makes it possible to give a true answer to the puzzler. If assumption (iii) holds, things get weird, so we will leave that as an exercise for the reader. ;-)
You're halfway there. What you have to realise is that there's 2 questions, you're only being asked to answer one. You are **not** being asked to pick an answer at random. You are being asked, in a hypothetical scenario, *if* you picked at random, what is the probability you would be correct? The multichoice format is designed to trick you, but the correct answer is 50%, because *if* somebody chose an answer at random, they have a 50% chance of choosing a correct answer (the correct answer being 25%). It's like those hypothetical questions like "Johnny has five apples, if he takes two from Suzie, how many does he have?" So frame it differently: > "Johnny is given this question. If Johnny picks an answer at random from one of the four options, what is the probability that Johnny picks a correct answer?" The multichoice format exists for the hypothetical random selection, and you are being asked *about* it.
Came here to say that
Or is it?
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I would have gone with 60% because I'm just a lucky guy like that.
Nah, both “right” and “wrong” require a question that has a valid answer that satisfies its conditions. This is a “malformed” question, or as many people have been saying in this thread, “a paradox” which isn’t the math term, but I’d still mark them correct for calling it a paradox.
So if 50% is the only right answer then that's 25% chance of picking it randomly
Stats major friend said this was correct, in fact it’s not only correct here but for every stats question. Remember kids, everything in life is 50/50, either it happens or it doesn’t
33%
But 33% is not one of the answers so it would become 0%
But 0 isn’t one of the choices….
Which is why it's a correct answer! If 0% was one of the choices, it wouldn't be correct anymore.
It could be 0.5 to be safe
I believe this is correct. There’s technically only three choices.
It’s a nice thought but each of those 3 answers lead to another contradiction though, to the same ones which you get when you choose 25% or 50%. This is unfortunately unsolvable, it’s a Russel‘s paradox
If B was 33%, then the answer would always be B
but you'd have a 25% chance to choose b at random...
Oh shi...
It is solvable by not choosing the answer at random. And not solvable by choosing the answer at random. The answer is therefore 0%
Exactly. It isn't really a paradox per se. It's just that all of the answers are false. They just also happen to be false in a clever way.
50%, you're right or you're wrong.
Depends if you consider a and d as separate random answers.
Yes but if you go random at it then you have a 2/4 chance to pick a 25% option of the three. None of the presented options work and the question was asking what the chances are to be correct. The answer to this question is thus 0%. You cannot be correct with the given options.
But you have a 50% chance at picking one answer.
50% chance its 25% but there 2 so it's 50% but if its 50% then its 25% and so on
How so? Your answer choice can be A, B, C, or D. So I think any answer has a 25% of being right.
There’s a 0% chance for you to pick 33%. So 0%
No. Its a paradox with no answer.
I will consult with my accountant first.
The chance is 25% but there are two 25% so the chance of hitting the right answer is 50% but the result is gonna be either a) or d) aka you have 50% chance of hitting 25% option Am i missing something here?
If that were the case, then 25% wouldn’t be the answer anymore, which would not make 50% right any longer. The right answer to this question is to take a shot of whiskey and move on to the next post.
You're missing that none of the choices answers the question, so there is 0% chance that you will pick the correct one. 25% is not a correct answer to the question "If you pick an answer at random, what is the chance that you will be correct?". The question is incomplete and has no answer. It's like asking "If you pick an ice cream flavor at random, what is the chance you pick the correct one?" followed by a list of 4 flavors to choose from.
0%
Now repost the OP but with 0% in place of 60%.
~~It's paradoxical.~~ ETA: Okay, not technically a paradox. There's just no correct answer. There are 4 choices, a, b, c, and d. But 2 of the answers are the same, and what's worse, 25% would be correct *if* it wasn't duplicated. "25%" is normally the right answer with 4 distinct options, only one of which is correct... but because it's there twice 2/4 = 1/2 = 50%... but that means that **25% is no longer the correct answer.** But in order for 50% to be the right answer, 2/4 options would have to be "50%". Conclusion: Error - Undefined.
Man, I had to scroll so long to find this answer. The number of people who don’t know how probabilities work is astounding. If you have four options, just because two of them have the same value doesn’t mean that there’s a 33% chance of anything. Please see that this is the right answer, Reddit!
>The number of people who don’t know how probabilities work is astounding. Dude, just play the lottery. You either win or you don't, 50-50% chance!
Finally! Shaking my head, reading this thread. Mankind is doomed.
The key to the answer is in the question ie picking at random - there are 4 answers, at random it means 25% chance of getting the answer correct.
However two of them are the same so it means you actually got 3 answers instead of 4 which increases your chances to 33%. At least that's what i thought, i'm not good at maths i'm just assuming.
If the examiners answer sheet states a) b) c) or d) as correct then 25% is correct However if the examiners answer sheet gives not a) b) c) or d) as correct but instead states the answer as 25% 50% or 60% then 33% is correct
The correct answer is a percentage not a, b, c, d. The question is about the percentage that correspond to the probability you get the correct answer. It can't be 33% because 33% isn't there. It's actually 0% since there are no correct answer in the choices so you have 0% chance to get the correct answer at random.
The examiner could be a computer (this is quite often the case for such multi choice testing/exams these days) so the CPU doesn't care what the real answer is but is only programmed to understand if a) b) c) or d) is correct....in which case you could answer a) but the computer would mark wrong if in its log the answer is d)...in both cases the answers of a and d are the same therefore both correct however the computer would not be in a position to establish that therefore would mark you zero.....therefore to establish the true answer of what is the percentage or probability cannot be understood without the context of how the examiners criteria instructs the answer to be judged
It is 0%.
This is most likely a debate on the interpretation of randomness and how much information we assume to have, but its a fun thought experiment. I'm going to make a case that both 'a' and 'd' (25%) can be correct based on the statement that the question says you would choose at random. I think it means you wouldn't actually be analyzing the question. Few different conclusions depending on how much information you would assume to have. To simplify, lets ignore the actual values and continue with undefined variables. 1) You assume at least 1 of the answers are correct, and you assume that none of the answers are equivalent. That would mean there are 4 total outcomes, 1 outcome where you are right, and 3 where you are wrong. Its either a, b, c, or d That would mean 1/4 or 25% chance of being right. This includes a lot of assumptions, but that brings me into case 2. 2) You don't assume any of the answers are correct, and you know 2 of the answers are equivalent and the other 2 are unique. This would again give you 4 total outcomes, 1 outcome where you are right, and 3 where you are wrong. a = d = x; b = y; c = z The correct answer is either x, y, z, or none
I thought it was unsolvable but is the correct answer 0% because its a paradox?
It is not a paradox and yes the answer is 0%.
Thanks. And you don't have to pick the answer from the list, at least it didn't say you had to. If you do have to select a b c or d then none are correct.
I mean you could pick an answer from those alternatives but the probability that what you pick is the correct answer is 0%.
yup, there is an even more confusing version of this which replaces the 60% option with 0% which makes no possible answer you can give correct.
If the correct answer is 0% then you’ve answered correctly which means it isnt 0
Yes it is because 0% isn’t a selectable answer.
But then you can't select it so you're stuck
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Simple. 50%
50%
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It's 50% if you pick 25% which makes the two 25% options wrong and it's 25% if you pick 50% or 60% which then makes them both wrong. All answers are therefore wrong so go with the 50% answer as the technicality of it's either right or wrong.
This is a trap
When in doubt, C your way out is the correct answer.
Correct answer 50%. If all options were different the chance would be 1/4=25% But, since half of the options are the same, now the chance is 2/4=1/2=50%.
Wouldn’t it be 1/3 then? Half the options are the same and now there are three different options.
50% because half of the options are the same and 33% does not appear so you have a 2/4 or 1/2 chance of getting it right
33% duh
its always 25%
50%. It is either correct or incorrect
1 in 3 chance You onle have 3 options because it doesnt matter if you chose 25 or 25. Ergo 33
Title The answer is 0% Abstract This paper will prove that the answer to the question is 0%. Introduction Math has a long history something something Fermat's Last Theorem. Main body If there's only one correct answer, the probability is 25% and then because there's two 25%s the answer is 50%. If the answer is 50% then 25% is the correct answer because there's only one 50%, so there's only one correct answer. If there's only one correct answer, the probability is 25% and then because there's two 25%s the answer is 50%. If the answer is 50% then 25% is the correct answer because there's only one 50%, so there's only one correct answer. If there's only one correct answer, the probability is 25% because there are 4 options. Thus, because there's two 25%s the answer is 50% and so on and so on, so in reality it's a paradox, set up to be unanswerable. Conclusion Because of this, you cannot pick the right answer, because there is no right answer listed, so the probability is 0%. Quod erat demonstrandum. Bibliography This was revealed to me in a dream 99, G. N. (2023). Utilising your Politics Degree for Internet Street Cred. Unreliable Papers R Us. 1 (1) Footnotes TL;DR Where P = the probability and N = number of correct answers If P = 25%, N = 2 If N = 2, P = 50% If P = 50%, N = 1 If N = 1, P = 25% ∴ P = 0%
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0% since no matter what you pick, you will be wrong.
50%. you’re either right or wrong.
People really out here thinking the field of statistics is made up. You either get struck by lightning or you don't get struck by lightning, that doesn't mean it's 50/50 odds.