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Question 590973: you are taking a multiple choice test that has 7 questions.Each of the questions have 5 answer choices, with one correct answer per question. If you select one choice for each question and leave nothing blank, in how many ways can you answer the question?
Answer by ad_alta(240) About Me  (Show Source):
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Each question can be answered 5 ways, so if the test has 7 questions there are 5^7 =78125 different possible "answers" to the test. Only one solution is correct, of course, so you only have a 0.0013% chance of getting 100% by guessing.