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Old 12-15-2007, 01:27 PM
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What are the differences in the odds of a person with no knowledge, randomly choosing answers, getting a 100% on these two tests:

A 10 question multiple choice test with 4 possible answers on each question.

A 10 question matching test with 10 answers each of which is only a correct answer for one of the questions.
Exactly 1 in 1,048,576

2.75573192×10^-7 or about 1 in 36 million
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