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A student is taking an exam and doesn't know the answers to four of the questions, so they decide to guess randomly on all four of them. Two of the questions are true/false questions, one is a multiple choice question with 4 possible answers, and one is a multiple choice question with 5 possible answers. What is the percentage chance that they will answer all four questions correctly?

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To find the probability of answering all four questions correctly, we need to determine the probability of guessing each question correctly and then multiply those probabilities together.

For the true/false questions, since there are two options (true or false) for each question, the probability of guessing correctly for each true/false question is 1/2 or 0.5.

For the multiple-choice question with 4 possible answers, the probability of guessing correctly is 1 out of 4, which can be expressed as 1/4 or 0.25.

For the multiple-choice question with 5 possible answers, the probability of guessing correctly is 1 out of 5, which can be expressed as 1/5 or 0.2.

Now, we multiply these probabilities together to find the probability of answering all four questions correctly:

Probability = (Probability of true/false question 1) × (Probability of true/false question 2) × (Probability of multiple-choice question 1) × (Probability of multiple-choice question 2)
= (0.5) × (0.5) × (0.25) × (0.2)
= 0.0125 or 1.25%

Therefore, the chance that the student will answer all four questions correctly by random guessing is approximately 1.25%.
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