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A multiple-choice quiz has 5 questions. Each question has 3 possible answers. A student guesses the answer to each question. Find the probability that the student answers all 5 questions incorrectly.

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Answer: 3^5=243. 1/243

Explanation:

We calculate the amount of ways he can answer 5 questions. It's 3x3x3x3x3 because he has 3 questions at the start with each of the 3 having another 3 questions to choose from and so on.

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