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2945557 No.2945557 [Reply] [Original]

First one to get it right wins 10,000 internetz

>> No.2945563

Why is there 2 answers for 25%?

>> No.2945564

C, or
Quantum option A and D

>> No.2945574

This was on here the other night. GTFO. Two options of 25% makes it B.

>> No.2945580

None of them are correct. There isn't even a question being posed that warrants any sort of correct or incorrect answer. By using the phrase, "this question" in the middle of the sentence and ending it with a period, you aren't creating any sort of solvable question. The sentence doesn't have a corresponding answer, so it's null.

So I guess it would be C.

>> No.2945588
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>> No.2945614

depends on the number of correct answers... didnt say shit about it.

if 1 than 1/4

>> No.2945618

if the answer had been less then 25% but more then 0% then that might be the more probable. However I would also have to go with c.

>> No.2945649
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2945649

mhm...

There are 4 possible answers, A, B, C, D.
assumption: there is a correct answer to the question.

Since by assumption there is an answer, if I choose one at random I have at least a 25% chance of beeing correct, which means C) 0% is certainly wrong.
The answer C is paradoxical in any case since ir C is right, one can randomly answer C to win => chance >0% and thus then C is wrong.
the answer 75% (i.e. all three remaining anwers are true) is not a possibe answer, so at least one of the answers A, B or D is false.
A and D are the same, so the answer is eighter 25% or 50%.
the chance of randomly hitting 25% is 50% and the chance of randomly hitting 50% is 25%.
this makes me thinking that the assumption was false...

>> No.2945664

this is similar to the question

which answer choice is right?

A. B
B. A
C. D
D. C

>> No.2945671

It's B, becasuse the anser would be 25% but their are two answers that say that making it instead 50%

>> No.2945692

>>2945671

But there are still three options that might be right: 0%, A or D (25%), and 50%.

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>>2945671
finish your reasoning please. my critique:

>becasuse the anser would be 25%
why would it be?
>making it instead 50%
>making it
you can't have a dynamical truth in this question.

so if you say the answer is ultimately B) 50%, then you say that 1 out of 4 possible answers is the correct one and the chance to randomly hit it is therefore 25% (which is not the content of the answer B)

so argue why you are right by defending the answer B, not by assuming what is true changes while argumenting

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>>2945692
No u fool, both A and D are correct, making it 50%, that m makes the answer B. besides /b/ is always the correct answer

>> No.2945701

Yahoo answers says the answer is 50% because it's a trick question and they never give any limits as to which answers are to picked from.

That sounds fucking stupid.

There is no answer.

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>>2945699

You don't know which answer is correct. You're assuming A and D are correct. A and D are combined into one option.

Might as well call A and D <span class="math">\delta[/spoiler].

So you choose from:

<span class="math">\delta[/spoiler]
B
C

>> No.2945709

it's a fucking paradox you deranged fucktards.

>This sentence is false.

Is the above sentence true or false? See? There's no fucking answer you fucking retards.

Self referential logic + retards is a potent combination, even worse than Americans and infinity
>HURF
>HURP

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>>2945709
No no no, the answer is /b/ whether you like it or not. Just because you can't understand the simple logic doesn't make it not have an answer. Some people on the internet are so retarded

>> No.2945733

If we choose a random distribution where B is selected 50% of the time, then B is in fact the correct answer.

>> No.2945735

>>2945726
continuation: 10,000 internets plz OP

>> No.2945741
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2945741

Let me reason again:

There are 4 possible answers
C) 0%
B) 50%
A and D) 25%

0) By the given answers only "0%", "50%" and "25" are possible answers and {C},{B} and {A,D} are exclusive. We now check if one of the answer can actually by the correct answer.

1) We assume "0%", i.e. "C)" is the correct answer. There is a nonvanishing chance of 25% of hitting "C) 0%". Therefore, in this case, there is a nonvanishing chance of being right, which contradicts the assumption. Therefore the assumption was false and "C) 0%" is not the right answer.

2) We assume "50%", i.e. "B)" is the correct answer. Since the answers are exclusive in the above sense (see 0), there is a nonvanishing chance of exactly 25% of being correct. But this means "25%" and not "50%" is the answer to the question and therefore the assumption was false and "B) 50%" is not the right answer.

3) We assume "25%" is the correct answer, so we have two equally valid answers A and D. Since the answers are exclusive in the above sense (see 0), there is a nonvanishing chance of exactly 50% of being correct. But this means "50%" and not "25%" is the answer to the question and therefore the assumption was false and "A,D) 25%" is not the right answer.

Therefore all possible answers {A,B,C,D} are not valid.

/thread

>> No.2945747

there is no answer because the question doesn't give the conditions for correct or incorrect

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>>2945741
Uhhh look your logic is all off, if you can't understand why the correct answer is /b/ then your just not smart enough. I've already laid down the logic behind it. If your too stupid to comprehend it then plz gtfo

>> No.2945765

>>2945741
You assume we need to select between them uniformly at random. That's heavily implied, but never actually stated.

B, or both A and D, or even C could all be correct solutions given a suitable random distribution.

>> No.2945775

>>2945741
but if none of the choices are right then wouldn't that make C right????

I think that the problem here is that the question is meaningless and thus any attempt to read meaning into it will lead to a contradiction similar to with the statement "this statement is false"

>> No.2945778

>>2945765
Exactly, and as the first to state that it was /b/ 10,000 internets plz

>> No.2945788

>>2945775
yes sure. If none of the answers are correct the third answer is correct.

Let's repeat that.

None of the answers are correct. This implies that the third answer is correct.

Let's say it again for kicks:

Neither of the answers can be correct. From this we conclude that in fact the third answer is correct.

>> No.2945803

>>2945788
only if trhe third answer is /b/ dumbass, oh wait its the second answer thats /b/, GTFO

>> No.2945807
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2945807

C

Three choices: (A/D), B, and C.

33.33333 is not an option. But since we don't know the question to the question, there is no answer.

>> No.2945818

>>2945788
Well yes, obviously C isn't actually correct.

But neither is the conclusion that none of the answers are correct, because it entails the contradictory result that C is correct.

So it is in fact a paradox, not just a question where all of the obvious answers are wrong.

>> No.2945820

>>2945557

The probability of choosing the correct answer from a set 4 choices is 25%. T-he probability of choosing 25%, the correct answer, is 50%. The question is a paradox.

>> No.2945832

>>2945788
No.
The question did not give conditions for correct answers.
The question did not give conditions for incorrect answers.
Therefore, any answers to the question are meaningless with respect to "correctness"
those are just random numbers.

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2945836

Ha, OP just gave me the 10,000 internets, that means I win /b/ is the correct answer end of story!
/thread

>> No.2946029

Schrodinger's cat options A and D

>> No.2946155

>>2945557
A, since there are 4 options.

>> No.2946887

If you pick random answer to this question. Chance to be corect is 1/(2^4) = 1/16 = 6,25 %. So correct answer is: A, B, C and D are false.
I think OP was trying to write paradox. But he FAILed.
Thank you. Good night.

>> No.2947234

from psychological point of wiew ..... when people are thinking up 4 answers they tend to give the correct ones to second place .. according to statistics

>> No.2947265

All the given answers to this question are incorrect. Which of them is correct?
a) This one
b) This one
c) This one
d) This one

>> No.2947326

>>2947265
In my opinion answer to this question is combination of true/false (multiple response):
A. false
B. false
C. false
D. false
Am I right?

>> No.2947345

>>2946887
you clever clever troll

>> No.2947379

OP is a
a) faggot
b) homo
c) gay
d) cake boy

>> No.2947395

>>2947379
wtf is a cake boy? please explain

>> No.2947400

you know if there is more than one question like this than you can use an universal solving pattern that goes like this:
A
C
D
C

A
B
B
A

If there are 5 possible answers then you can continue like this:

E
D
D
A

proved to be working in many tests

>> No.2947410

>>2947400
or just answer "A" to every question.
That way you outsmart the test maker because he thought no one would expect every answer to be "A"!

>> No.2947414

I would say this:

Because the question is not defined, it is not capable of being correct. Of course, it's also not capable of being incorrect either.

This would naturally lead to C, "zero percent". However, that's really just the BEST answer, probably not a correct answer, given that it cannot be correct or incorrect without given parameters.

So there you go. C is the BEST, but not necessarily CORRECT, answer.

>> No.2947419

considering A = D, the chance of picking up the "correct" answer is 1/3. That's 33 % which is not even included in the choices, therefore the answer to the question is 0 %.

>> No.2947572

>>2947414
It's neither correct nor best. It's plain wrong. There is no valid answer.

>> No.2947597

>>2947400
>AC/DC
Overrated shit.

>> No.2947608

It depends which answer you happened to choose.

>> No.2947623

C is correct because answer a and d refute themselves and so does B therefore only C can be correct but wait if its C then you picked the right answer

*head implodes*

>> No.2947632

>>2947419

>answer to the question
>implying correct answer
>implying 0% chance of correct answer, even though 'correct answer' given

that can't be right.

>> No.2947648

recursively defined question aren't always valid.