SOLUTION: Your teacher gives a quiz that has 5 true or false questions. What is the theoretical probability that you guess the correct answers to all 5 questions?

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Question 613095: Your teacher gives a quiz that has 5 true or false questions. What is the theoretical probability that you guess the correct answers to all 5 questions?

Found 2 solutions by jim_thompson5910, stanbon:
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 2^5 = 32 ways to answer the questions, but only one way to get them all correct.

So the probability is 1/32.

Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Your teacher gives a quiz that has 5 true or false questions. What is the theoretical probability that you guess the correct answers to all 5 questions?
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Probability is 1/2 on each question.
Ans: (1/2)^6 = 1/32
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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