A student takes a multiple-choice test that has  7questions. Each question has five choices. The student guesses randomly at each answer. Let X be the number of questions answered correctly.   (a) Find  P4 (b) Find  PMore than 2   My question is this:  how do we find the propability of answering questions correctly? Each question has five choices so the probability that a student guesses at each answer correctly is 0.2  how did we find .2?  the rest of the problem i understand, its how we got the .2 propability that is tripping me up.

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7questions. Each question has five choices. The student guesses randomly at each answer. Let X be the number of questions answered correctly.
 
(a) Find 
P4
(b) Find 
PMore than 2

 

My question is this:  how do we find the propability of answering questions correctly? Each question has five choices so the probability that a student guesses at each answer correctly is 0.2  how did we find .2? 

the rest of the problem i understand, its how we got the .2 propability that is tripping me up.

 

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