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#11. Posted:
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0% chance of answering it right.
Since none of the answers are right.
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The answer is B, because, well actually I don't know. Can you explain this?
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After tons of pondering I have come to the conclusion.

The correct answer is not there, being 0%.

Why? Because there is no answer, its a paradox. There is 4 options, A,B,C,D = 4, one answer is right, 1/4 (25%) so in good reasoning the answer is 25%. However there is two options with that answer meaning if you input the correct answer you do not have a 25% chance, you have a 50% chance (2/4 = 50%) of getting it right, making the correct answer invalid either way and 50% being your choice no matter what even if its wrong. Therefor the answer is 0%, because a paradox has no answer and either does this question.
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i'm going to go with 25 percent chance
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There can be no solution, since the ambiguity of correct makes the question ill-posed.
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You sir employ fun maths for this time of night!

You normally choosing between four answers have a 25% chance of choosing, however, since two are the same you need to factor into percentages that you have a 50% chance of choosing once answer and a 25% chance of another, and a 25% of another, so thanks to complex mathematics i got the answer to be somewhere around 42.86%

It cannot be 50% because there are three outcomes, but 4 options, so factoring that in it should be just under 50% and just greater than 33.334%
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Zoidberg wrote Question:

If you were to randomly select an answer to this question, what would be the percent chance of you guessing correctly?

A.) 25%
B.) 50%
C.) 75%
D.) 25%


What do you guys think of this?


There's a 33% chance because two of those answers are the same thus if the answer is 25% then you have a 1 in 3 chance of picking 25% 1 in 3 chance of 25%
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Ehmm

twice 25%
once 50%
once 70%

1 chance to guess 25%
1 change to guess 50%
1 change to guess 75%

3 chances to guess right
so 100 divided by 3 = 33,3%
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Im confused as hell as to what is even going on haha.
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Completely ambiguous. You could argue 25%, but there's also the possibility of 0% considering I would assume the correct answer would have to be 33%. In other words, my answer is there's 0% of guessing correct because the answer isn't provided, which is 33%..

Edit: I know 0% is not an option, but the question never said we can only use values provided..
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