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A student is taking a multiple choice test consisting of five questions, each with four options for each question. The student selects the answers at random.a) What is the probability that the student will get at least one question correct?b) Calculate the expected number of questions correct.

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A student is taking a multiple choice test consisting of five questions, each with four options for each question. The student selects the answers at random.a) What is the probability that the student will get at least one question correct?b) Calculate the expected number of questions correct.

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a) The probability of getting a question correct by randomly guessing is 1/4 since there are 4 options. Therefore, the probability of getting a question wrong is 1 - 1/4 = 3/4.

Since there are 5 questions, the probability of getting all questions wrong is (3/4)^5 = 0.2373.

The probability of getting at least one question correct is 1 - the probability of getting all questions wrong = 1 - 0.2373 = 0.7627.

b) The expected number of questions correct is simply the total number of questions times the probability of getting a question correct.

So, the expected number of questions correct is 5 * 1/4 = 1.25.

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