A student is taking a multiple choice quiz but forgot to study and so he will randomly guess the answer to each question. There are a total of 12 questions, each with 4 answer choices. Only one answer is correct for each question. The probability that he correctly answers fewer than 2 questions is 0.2322 0.3907 0.1584 0.8416

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A student is taking a multiple choice quiz but forgot to study and so he will randomly guess answer to each question. There are
a total of 12 questions, each with 4 answer choices. Only one answer is correct for each question. The probability that he correctly
answers fewer than 2 questions is
(A) 0.2322
(B) 0.3907
(c) 0.1584
D 0.8416
Transcribed Image Text:A student is taking a multiple choice quiz but forgot to study and so he will randomly guess answer to each question. There are a total of 12 questions, each with 4 answer choices. Only one answer is correct for each question. The probability that he correctly answers fewer than 2 questions is (A) 0.2322 (B) 0.3907 (c) 0.1584 D 0.8416
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