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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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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
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. - nyc_kidLv 71 decade ago
Prob(at least one correct ) = 1 - Prob(no correct answers) =
1- (4/5)^4 = .5904
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
idk