SOLUTION: IF A STUDENT GUESSES THE ANSWER TO A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION (consisting of 5 possibile answers of which only one is correct) then the odds against the student answering the queas

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Question 419386: IF A STUDENT GUESSES THE ANSWER TO A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION (consisting of 5 possibile answers of which only one is correct) then the odds against the student answering the queastion correctly is.........; and the odds in favor are.......?


my working:
4:1
1:4
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Hi

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION (consisting of 5 possible answers of which only one is correct)

odds against guessing correctly 4:1

 odds for guessing correctly    1:4    |good work



P(guessing correctly) = 1/5 = .20