What's new
By:

Answer this question correctly

F

franklin

Well-Known Member
Nbv1H.jpg


Another interesting math thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem



Fridays at work suck.
 
Okay, I've actually tried to figure this out and I come up with multiple possible answers, which should be impossible with mathematics, right? I mean isn't math about absolutes?
Still, when I try to figure out the answer, I feel like a hamster in a wheel .. like a circular argument.

Edit: So what is the answer, and why?
 
The question is nonsensical, PKM. Given a question with 4 possible answers, the chance of getting it right is obviously 25% (if you pick at random). However, since two options give you 25%, the questioner wants you to think that the ratio between right and wrong answers is 2:2, thus making B the correct answer with 50%. But since the answer is now 50%, that makes the 25% options incorrect. Since the 25% options were the basis for your selection of 50%, your selection is now incorrect.

It is a logical paradox, and not a math question.
 
SiroMar said:
The question is nonsensical, PKM. Given a question with 4 possible answers, the chance of getting it right is obviously 25% (if you pick at random). However, since two options give you 25%, the questioner wants you to think that the ratio between right and wrong answers is 2:2, thus making B the correct answer with 50%. But since the answer is now 50%, that makes the 25% options incorrect. Since the 25% options were the basis for your selection of 50%, your selection is now incorrect.

It is a logical paradox, and not a math question.
Click to expand...

Oh good .. because that's exactly what I was doing .. but I assumed there was supposed to actually, you know, be an answer.
 
SiroMar said:
The question is nonsensical, PKM. Given a question with 4 possible answers, the chance of getting it right is obviously 25% (if you pick at random). However, since two options give you 25%, the questioner wants you to think that the ratio between right and wrong answers is 2:2, thus making B the correct answer with 50%. But since the answer is now 50%, that makes the 25% options incorrect. Since the 25% options were the basis for your selection of 50%, your selection is now incorrect.

It is a logical paradox, and not a math question.
Click to expand...

Logical paradoxes can suck it.
 
The answer is 25% but the right answer could be A, B, C, or D. The questioner doesn't give the question to the possible answers.
 
PKM said:
Oh good .. because that's exactly what I was doing .. but I assumed there was supposed to actually, you know, be an answer.
Click to expand...

Questions like this are actually the basis of a lot of work in mathematics. It's a varioation on Russell's Paradox: Say A is the set of all things that are not elements of themselves. Is A an element of A?
 
One Brow said:
Questions like this are actually the basis of a lot of work in mathematics. It's a varioation on Russell's Paradox: Say A is the set of all things that are not elements of themselves. Is A an element of A?
Click to expand...

Gotcha. Thanks for showing up all late and stuff.
 
bigb said:
You don't go on dates with your wife?
Click to expand...

I knew someone would say that. Of course, but I don't call it that. It's sounds romantic and all, but to me a date implies you're dating. I'm married, but somehow going out together would sound weird if we said we're going marrying.

So I just say we're going out tonight.

But does that imply we're just 'going out?' Wow, I'm gonna have to create a whole new word.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page
Back
Top