Question

Clue is a board game in which you must deduce three details surrounding a murder. In the original game of Clue, the guilty person can be chosen from 6 people, and there are 6 different possible weapons and 9 possible rooms. At one point in the game, you have narrowed the possibilities down to 4 people, 5 weapons, and 7 rooms. What is the probability of making a random guess of the guilty person, murder weapon, and location from your narrowed-down choices, and the guess being correct? Enter a fraction or round your answer to 4 decimal places, if necessary.

Answer 1

the required probability is 0.0071

Step-by-step explanation:

Given the data in the question;

we have narrowed the possibilities down to 4 people, 5 weapons, and 7 rooms.

so total number of combinations for the narrowed down metrics is computed as follows;

using multiplication rule:

⇒ 4 × 5 × 7 = 140 ways

Now, the probability of making a random guess from our narrowed down choices as well as getting the guess correct will be;

⇒ 1 / 140

{ assuming that the narrowed down choices have within it the correction combination }

= 0.007142 ≈ 0.0071 { four decimal place }

∴ the required probability is 0.0071