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A student in his exam, selects option C for all 10 multiple choice questions (MCQ). According to statistics, how many questions out of 10, the student will be right?(Format of the exam: 10 MCQ. Each MCQ has 4 answer choices A,B,C,D - out of which 1 choice is right and rest 3 are wrong)Disclaimer: Please do not try this in this quiz !!!Answer choicesSelect only one optionREVISITA) 5B) 2.5C) 2D) 5.50/10 questions attempted

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A student in his exam, selects option C for all 10 multiple choice questions (MCQ). According to statistics, how many questions out of 10, the student will be right?(Format of the exam: 10 MCQ. Each MCQ has 4 answer choices A,B,C,D - out of which 1 choice is right and rest 3 are wrong)Disclaimer: Please do not try this in this quiz !!!Answer choicesSelect only one optionREVISITA) 5B) 2.5C) 2D) 5.50/10 questions attempted

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The student has a 1 in 4 chance of getting each question correct because there are 4 possible answers (A, B, C, D) and only 1 of them is correct.

So, if the student guesses the same answer (in this case, C) for all 10 questions, statistically, they would get 1/4 of the questions correct.

To find out how many questions out of 10 they would get right, you would multiply the total number of questions by the probability of getting a question right:

10 questions * 1/4 = 2.5 questions

So, the student would, on average, get 2.5 questions correct if they guessed the same answer for all 10 questions.

Therefore, the correct answer to the question is B) 2.5.

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