POLL: Multiple Choice Quiz

Jul 14, 2017
8:21:41am

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Suppose you're taking a multiple-choice quiz. One question has three choices. Not knowing the answer, you randomly guess A. The instructor then announces that C is incorrect. Should you switch to B before turning in your paper?

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POLL: Multiple Choice Quiz

HangookCoug

7/14/17 8:21am

The 'Monty Hall Problem'

BlueFrog

7/14/17 8:23am

No. The student here has equal odds with A or B.

garyfan

7/14/17 8:40am

Plaid jackets?

Sea Chicken

7/14/17 8:47am

Nope

rggee

7/19/17 11:46am

Since the professor doesn't know what you originally picked it changes my answer

fbguru

7/14/17 8:24am

Similar but different

HangookCoug

7/14/17 8:28am

Yeah, if you had guessed C the professor still would have said C was wrong.

fbguru

7/14/17 8:34am

This is actually a perfect example of a monty hall problem

Dissenter

7/14/17 8:52am

Nope

rggee

7/19/17 11:47am

Is it the instructor's job to heighten tension for the most excitement at the

ByuMba90

7/14/17 8:24am

Nice. I just listened to this on satelite radio on the way to work today

HangookCoug

7/14/17 8:28am

The answer is B, it's called the Monty Hall problem

Dissenter

7/14/17 8:50am

No, because the Monty Hall problem requires the host to know what choice you

garyfan

7/14/17 8:56am

This is the difference^

HangookCoug

7/14/17 8:59am

Or, the question was designed to mimic the Monty Hall problem even though

fbguru

7/14/17 9:02am

Nope

rggee

7/19/17 11:48am

What if you choose A again?

seco03

7/14/17 8:52am

Good question....since the professor does not know your choice, and since C

HangookCoug

7/14/17 9:02am

Solution

HangookCoug

7/14/17 9:10am

Ah, tricky. Don't teachers know our choices? Maybe I read the question too fas

BamaCoug

7/14/17 9:14am

A complex look at it, looks correct to me

fbguru

7/14/17 9:38am

Hmm. Isn't this the Let's make a deal question? Switching is better.

BamaCoug

7/14/17 9:11am

Nope

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