B) 60% because I'm generally very lucky.
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If you're choosing the answer, then there is 100% chance of being correct. Since none of these answers is 100%, the chance is 0%.
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That logic would only hold if I wasn't dumb as rocks.
It's annoying that 25% appears twice. How about these answers:
a) 100%
b) 75%
c) 50%
d) 0%
That's why we're making fun of it though
Granted, it is more fun to have more answers involved, but 2 identical answers immediately gives it away as fake.
0%
The only winning move is not to choose
This can also be used a great example of proof by contradiction: There is no correct answer in the options. Proof: Assume there was a correct answer in the options. Then it must be either 25%, 50% or 60%. Now we make a case distinction.
(A) Assume it was 25. Then there would be two of four correct options yielding in a probability of 50%. Therefore 50 must be the correct answer. -> contradiction.
(B) Assume it was 50. Then there would be one of four correct options yielding in a probability of 25%. Therefore the answer is 25. -> contradiction.
(C) Assume it was 60%. Since only 0,1,2,3 or 4 of the answers can be correct the probability of choosing the right answer must be one of 0% 25% 50% 75% or 100%. -> contradiction.
Because of (A), (B) and (C), it cannot be 25, 50% or 60%. -> contradiction.
Cheeky answer - the correct answer is a superposition of 25% and 50%, thus you answer it as a multiple choice question
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because of copyright?
It was only the next day that I returned to this post realising that "this question" isn't even defined.
I choose 75%
The answer is clear
When in doubt, C it out.
I would think a b c d so 25% O he made a mistake znd forgot to take the bubble answer out. Now we only can pick between aord b c so it would be 33%
Seems my logic is wrong iff i read the rest
You can never answer this question correctly. If the correct answer is 25% there's a 50% chance you guess correctly but that would make the 25% wrong.
But if the answer is the 50% then it implies that 25% is correct which implies that 50% is wrong.
We reach a contradiction for both 25% and 50% making the correct answer to make the whole statement truthy 0%.
Any answer is correct as long as you don't pick it at random. I'd choose (a) because I'm too lazy to read the other options