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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since two of them are the same, you have a 50% chance of picking something that is 33% of the possible answers. The other two, you have 25% chance of picking something that us 33% of the possible answers.

So 50%33% + 2 (33%*25%)= 33%

So your chances of being right is 33% cause there is effectively 3 choices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But that one answer has a 33% larger possibility of being chosen by random, than the remaining two.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I covered that by multiplying it by 50% as it represents 50% of the choices.