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What is the probability of answering a multiple choice question correctly If you know that one of the answer if definitely wrong but you have to guess between the 3 remaining answers?
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1/3.
Indeed, there were four answers you had to choose from. If one is eliminated as you know it is definitely wrong, then you are left with three possible answers, one of which is correct. Thus you have 1 correct answer out of three possible, and the probability to randomly pick the correct one is 1 out of 3, or 1/3 or 33.333 %
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