SOLUTION: A quiz contains a multiple-choice question with five possible answer,only one of which is correct.A student plans to guess the answer. (A). What is t

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Question 1173618: A quiz contains a multiple-choice question with five possible answer,only one of which is correct.A student plans to guess the answer. (A). What is the sample space. (B).Assign probability to the simple event. (C). The probability student guesses the wrong answer. (D).The probability a student guesses the correct answer.
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Hi,

A Multiple choice question with 5 choices

A student plans to guess the answer 

(A). What is the sample space = 5

(B). Assign probability to the simple event  1

(C). The probability student guesses the wrong answer  4/5

 (D).The probability a student guesses the correct answer.  1/5

Note:  4/5 + 1/5 = 1

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