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Via Flowingdata<\/a> via Raymond Johnson<\/a>, credit to Ryan Grover<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n If a multiple choice question has four answers, your chance of randomly guessing the right answer is 1 in 4, or 25% … right?<\/p>\n You’d think<\/i> that — until you see that 25% is written twice.<\/p>\n So, since the correct answer appears twice, your chance of guessing correctly is 2 in 4, or 50% … right?<\/p>\n EXCEPT that if the correct answer is 50%, which only appears once, then the correct answer is actually 25% (since only one in four answers says “50%.”)<\/p>\n That’s sort of satisying — until you see that 25% is written twice.<\/p>\n So … (wait, this is hurting our heads!) since the correct answer appears twice, your chance of guessing correctly is 2 in 4, or 50% … right?<\/p>\n EXCEPT that if the correct answer is 50%, which only appears once, then the correct answer is actually 25% (since only one in four answers says “50%.”)<\/p>\n Whoa. (We’re nonplussed<\/a>, flummoxed<\/a>, addlepated<\/a>, and just generally making a Keanu Reeves expression right now.)<\/p>\n Let’s stop here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Via Flowingdata via Raymond Johnson, credit to Ryan Grover. If a multiple choice question has four answers, your chance of randomly guessing the right answer is 1 in 4, or 25% … right? You’d think that — until you see that 25% is written twice. So, since the correct answer appears twice, your chance of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-math-gre-strategies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7212,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/7212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"\/\/www.jenisfamous.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/11\/keanu-reeves-whoa.jpeg\" "\\"keanu-reeves-whoa\\"")
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