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On a chemistry quiz, there are 5 multiple choice questions with 4 choices each. What is the probability that you get a 100% if you strictly guess.

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Answer:

0.097%

Explanation:

Since this is a series of events probability question, in order to calculate the probability you need to first find the probability of getting each individual answer right and then multiplying those probabilities together. This will give you the probability of getting 100% on the entire test. Since the questions are multiple-choice with 4 choices and only 1 correct choice then the probability of getting one right is 1/4 or 25%. Now that we have that probability we simply need to multiply it 5 times for each individual question.

1/4 * 1/4 * 1/4 * 1/4 * 1/4 = 1/1024 or 0.0009765 or 0.097%

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