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Probabilty help please?

If you make guesses for four multiple choice test ques, each with 5 possible answers, what is the probabilty of getting at least one correct ?

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    4/20 because there is a total 20 questions and 4 correct answers.

    You can simplify this down to get 1/5

  • 1 decade ago

    If your guesses are totally random, then the probability of getting a right answer for each question would be 1/5. So your chance of getting the wrong answer would be 4/5.

    The probability of getting 1 correct would be equal to:

    P(at least 1 correct) = 1 - P (getting none correct)

    P (getting none correct) = (4/5) ^ 4 (continuous prob. theory)

    = 256 / 652

    P (at least 1 correct) = 1 - ( 256/ 652 ) = 369 / 652 = 0.5904 or about 59% *corrected*

    (copied from windows calculator sry xD )

    Source(s): College math student.
  • 1 decade ago

    Prob(at least one correct ) = 1 - Prob(no correct answers) =

    1- (4/5)^4 = .5904

  • 1 decade ago

    (1/5) * 4 = 80% chance of getting one correct

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  • 1 decade ago

    1/5*4/1 = 4/5 or .8 or 80 percent

  • 1 decade ago

    1/5 or about 26%

    i guess

  • 1 decade ago

    (1/5) x 4 = 4/5 or 0.8

  • 1 decade ago

    .05%

  • 1 decade ago

    Idk

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    idk

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