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You have a 5 question multiple choice test. Each question has 4 choices. You don't know any of the answers. What is the experimental probability that you will guess exactly three out of five questions correctly

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You can calculate the theoretical probability, but to find out the experimental probability, you need to actually do it. Take the test a bunch of times. Find out how may times you got exactly 3 correct answers, and divide by the number of times you took the test.
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We're going to find the probability using Bernoulli trial's formulas:
P(x=3)= _(5)C_(3)\cdot ((1)/(4))^3\cdot ((3)/(4))^2=0.0879.
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