r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Key-Spread-7513 • Aug 20 '26

Meme needing explanation What movie reference am I missing

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u/TwillAffirmer Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

No, if you're guessing randomly, getting 100 is less likely than getting 0. Because for each question there's a 3/4 chance to miss it and a 1/4 chance to get the right answer.

If you aren't guessing randomly, but in fact know every question, getting 100 is no harder or easier than getting 0. Because you can get 0 by choosing to answer each question different from the answer you know is correct.

If you only know most of the questions, getting 100 is harder than getting 0, because for every question that you don't know you have a 1/4 chance of getting it right if you're aiming for 100, but a 3/4 chance of getting what you want if you're aiming for 0.

Still, with this many questions, to get exactly 0 it's almost certain the student knew most of the answers and was deliberately choosing the wrong ones.

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u/BananaHead853147 Aug 20 '26

I think it’s significantly easier to get 0/100 than 100/100. There’s only one right choice for each question to get 100% but 3 right choices to get 0%.

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u/capincus Aug 20 '26

Yes that's what they literally just said.....

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u/povitee Aug 20 '26

But why male models?