SOLUTION: A multiple-choice question on a quiz contains 10 questions with five possible answers each. What is the probability of randomly guessing the answers and getting exactly 9 questions

Question 1143696: A multiple-choice question on a quiz contains 10 questions with five possible answers each. What is the probability of randomly guessing the answers and getting exactly 9 questions correct?
Answer by greenestamps(13214) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

(a) Choose 9 of the 10 to be the ones that are correct
(b) Each correct answer has probability 1/5; each wrong answer has probability 4/5.

Use a calculator....
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