SOLUTION: Jorge is taking a multiple choice test. He decided to guess on the first two problems. On each question there are 4 answer choices. What is the probability that he answers the firs

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Question 438548: Jorge is taking a multiple choice test. He decided to guess on the first two problems. On each question there are 4 answer choices. What is the probability that he answers the first question correctly and the second question incorrectly?
Answer by stanbon(57224) (Show Source):
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Jorge is taking a multiple choice test. He decided to guess on the first two problems. On each question there are 4 answer choices. What is the probability that he answers the first question correctly and the second question incorrectly?
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The answers on the 2 questions are independent events.
P(correct followed by incorrect) = (1/4)(3/4) = 3/16
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Stan H.