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jamespels

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studdedsole

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You choose one of the four possible answers at random:

The chance of being correct is 25%

But there are two possible answers which are 25%

So the chance of being correct is now 50%, which is another possible answer.

The chance of this being correct is 25%.....but there are two possible answers which are 25%...........................here we go again

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Don't you just hate it when Science turns something on its head :D

Chicken-and-Egg Mystery Finally Cracked | Fox News

Oh well, back to the current problem at hand ........

..which arrived first the photon or the neutrino.......:)

Hmm!!! That only holds true if the almost-chicken didn't have the same protein! It's a bit like saying "things that lay eggs came before eggs" - while true, this does not apply exclusively to chcikens and so doesn't prove anything.

Can I just say I was looking at some eggs in a nest a while ago using my scope (that's when I happened to motice the blackboard in the picture above!) just to keep this vaguely astro related?!

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jamespels

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But 0% isn't a possible answer so that can't be correct..........do we need to settle on indeterminate?

I think this depends on how you choose to read the question - there are definitely two interpretations. Maybe we should open this up to comments on the grammar, too? :D

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Hmm!!! That only holds true if the almost-chicken didn't have the same protein! It's a bit like saying "things that lay eggs came before eggs" - while true, this does not apply exclusively to chcikens and so doesn't prove anything.

Damn - got me. Fox News so it has less chance of being correct than C does in the original question!

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studdedsole

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Damn - got me. Fox News so it has less chance of being correct than C does in the original question!

Hang on <60% wasn't a potential answer in the first place.

Do you have some other possible answers you didn't tell us about in the original question?

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Photosbykev

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I'll go with no chance of being correct as there isn't a question to answer, or am I just trying to be too clever and coming up blonde?:D
This would be my answer as well

Same for

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-

SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-

IC STUDY COMBINED WITH

THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

Now count the F's in that sentence.

There are no "F's" in the sentence, but others might say 6 if they are intelligent :)

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studdedsole

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If on eof the two 25%s is wrong, the question is answerable as the remaining 25% option. It's quiote interesting what happens if C becomes "0%" :D

I'm still stuck in my 25% : 50% : 25% endless loop and can't drop out of it to achieve 0%. Can't we make 0%=indeterminate instead and retire for a brew?

And an Anadin Extra

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661-pete

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Chickens obviously evolved from Pterodactyls - so the first egg was nothing to do with a chicken lol :D
No. Birds are currently believed to have evolved from theropod dinosaurs, i.e. the order of bipedal terrestrial dinosaurs which includes T rex. Pterodactyls were a completely separate branch of reptiles and are believed to have no living descendants. But the argument still holds good because theropods laid eggs.

I suppose the chicken-v-egg argument would make more sense if it were more precisely formulated, i.e.

"Which came first, the chicken or the chicken's egg?"

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Lol

My 1st thought was 50%....as there are 2x 25%....making it more likely I will choose 25%....but then there are 2 other option....so in effect making it 33.33**....but then again....:D

I'll take that tablet now cheers Studdedsole, with a large side order of vodka!! :):o

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studdedsole

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If in doubt choose 'C' :o

Do not ask me to explain, as I can't! :D But, that was always said to me during my RAF Techie training when we had multiple choice question papers! :)

I did pass, most of them too!

Doc

Thank goodness you weren't with bomb disposal then......cut the red, no the black, no the yellow, oh sod it go for the green :p

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Suppose there is a actual question to answer at all (there is none actually formulated), with A and D being the same, there are in fact three possible answers, so the odds should be 33.33%, never mind what is the actual answer. But is there a question at all? That is a confusing one :D

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