Poll: Can you answer this question?
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Paradoxically, 0%. Because I am 100% confident about my answer, yet 100% is not an option. Therefore the chance of my answer being the right one is 0%.
It's 40% .
It does seem like a trick question but it isn't . The question is , what are the chances one of the the answers below are correct . The probability in the answers are not for THAT question but another question we don't know . Therefore there is a 2/5 chance that one of them are correct , thus making the answer 40%
Edit : now if you were to answer A, B,C,D or E , you would be wrong . But if you say the answer is 40% you are right . It just happens that 40% corresponds to the letter B .
It does seem like a trick question but it isn't . The question is , what are the chances one of the the answers below are correct . The probability in the answers are not for THAT question but another question we don't know . Therefore there is a 2/5 chance that one of them are correct , thus making the answer 40%
Edit : now if you were to answer A, B,C,D or E , you would be wrong . But if you say the answer is 40% you are right . It just happens that 40% corresponds to the letter B .
That's exactly a problem the question is in itself not solvable. In addition I too am partial to our tuxedo wearing brethren.ClockworkPenguin said:
Edit: Curses changed the question and now I need to reevaluate.
Uhhh... This is a trick question, isn't it? I chose alpacas because the other answers give me a headache... Penguins included.
This question is impossible to answer. The answer isn't even 0% because that in itself is an incorrect answer. Let's look at the options:
Realistically, you'd have a 1 in 5 chance of answering a five-choice question correctly. So the answer would be 20%. But the problem is that there are two answers of 20%. That makes the answer 2 out of five answers. That means, based on random chance, you'd have a 40% chance of just guessing it. But, since that'd mean there'd only be a 1 out of 5 answer, it brings it back to 20%. That creates an infinite loop. This should mean the answer would be 0%. But, since that in itself is an option, it means that there would actually be a 20% chance of getting it right. Which means the question is insolveable.
Now, if the answer can only be a single letter and one of the five must be considered correct, that changes things slightly. The answer would have to be a single letter. That means that you have a 20% chance to get it right. This causes the chance of getting the right option to become 50% if you know what's going on. That makes every option wrong by extension. But in the end, you'll still have a 20% chance of getting it right. It just means that the answer you choose can't be absolutely right because the question itself is wrong.
Realistically, you'd have a 1 in 5 chance of answering a five-choice question correctly. So the answer would be 20%. But the problem is that there are two answers of 20%. That makes the answer 2 out of five answers. That means, based on random chance, you'd have a 40% chance of just guessing it. But, since that'd mean there'd only be a 1 out of 5 answer, it brings it back to 20%. That creates an infinite loop. This should mean the answer would be 0%. But, since that in itself is an option, it means that there would actually be a 20% chance of getting it right. Which means the question is insolveable.
Now, if the answer can only be a single letter and one of the five must be considered correct, that changes things slightly. The answer would have to be a single letter. That means that you have a 20% chance to get it right. This causes the chance of getting the right option to become 50% if you know what's going on. That makes every option wrong by extension. But in the end, you'll still have a 20% chance of getting it right. It just means that the answer you choose can't be absolutely right because the question itself is wrong.
Jonluw said:
Given 5 answers, chosen randomly, the likelihood of selecting any particular answer is 20%.
Now just investigate each choice and see if it is possible to be correct.
a) You have a 20% chance, which means only a single answer is correct. Ie: one answer of 20%. That is untrue, there are two answers of 20%. For this to be true, you'd need a single 20% answer.
b) You have a 40% chance, which means that there are two correct answers. That is also untrue, because there is only a singular 40%. For this to be true, you'd need two 40% answers.
c) You have a 60% chance, which means that there are three correct answers. This is untrue. For it to be true, you'd need three 60% answers.
d) Same logic as (a)
e) You have a 0% chance, which means there are no correct answers. (e) is self defeating - by being 'correct' it invalidates itself.
There's no answer in (a)-(e) that gives the correct result.
Now just investigate each choice and see if it is possible to be correct.
a) You have a 20% chance, which means only a single answer is correct. Ie: one answer of 20%. That is untrue, there are two answers of 20%. For this to be true, you'd need a single 20% answer.
b) You have a 40% chance, which means that there are two correct answers. That is also untrue, because there is only a singular 40%. For this to be true, you'd need two 40% answers.
c) You have a 60% chance, which means that there are three correct answers. This is untrue. For it to be true, you'd need three 60% answers.
d) Same logic as (a)
e) You have a 0% chance, which means there are no correct answers. (e) is self defeating - by being 'correct' it invalidates itself.
There's no answer in (a)-(e) that gives the correct result.
Santa Claus is your parents.
On a less serious note, it's a paradox, as it's already been stated - no right answer since this cannot exist in reality. Ah well, fun anyway. Go Alpacas!
On a less serious note, it's a paradox, as it's already been stated - no right answer since this cannot exist in reality. Ah well, fun anyway. Go Alpacas!
100% because im always right!
also i love alpacas!
now if you take it seriously the answer is a bit complicated because there is two "20%"s but assuming that they are not the same answer the answer will be 20% if they are the same it makes it complecated because if you choose 20% you have 40% to be right but then you didnt choose it... if you choose 40% you have only 20% chance to be right because it apears only once...
so yea mind fucked im just going that A means 20% chance that you are correct and D means 20% less sugar... so A is right
also i love alpacas!
now if you take it seriously the answer is a bit complicated because there is two "20%"s but assuming that they are not the same answer the answer will be 20% if they are the same it makes it complecated because if you choose 20% you have 40% to be right but then you didnt choose it... if you choose 40% you have only 20% chance to be right because it apears only once...
so yea mind fucked im just going that A means 20% chance that you are correct and D means 20% less sugar... so A is right