Is Who Wants to be a Millionaire just a game of luck?
I mean, there's 33.34% chance of being right unless the person happen to know the answer, and lifelines can only get you so far into the game.
Let's say there are 15 questions with 4 choices each. Let's also say there are 3 lifelines: call-a-friend, 50-50, and ask-the-audience.
For each of the 15 questions, there is only 1 correct answer, and 3 incorrect answers, so immediately your chances are 1/3 = 33.34%. You can use each lifeline once. Using phone-a-friend, let's say gives you a 95% chance the person you call is correct. So 1 question is 95%. Similarly, we can say ask-the-audience gives you a 95% chance. Finally, 50-50 will remove 2 wrong answers, so you have 1 right answer and 1 wrong answer, so you basically know the answer. To recap:
It's almost like they don't want to give away millions of dollars or something
Jacob Bailey
>33.34% what the fuck? it's 25%
Jeremiah Cruz
>or each of the 15 questions, there is only 1 correct answer, and 3 incorrect answers, so immediately your chances are 1/3 = 33.34% Somehow not even the most retarded thing in this post
Owen Allen
holy fuck, Is this english education? and here I thought we're at the shitty side of the stick being third world and all
Nolan Kelly
extremely stale pasta
Juan Gomez
>For each of the 15 questions, there is only 1 correct answer, and 3 incorrect answers, so immediately your chances are 1/3 = 33.34%. You can use each lifeline once. Using phone-a-friend, let's say gives you a 95% chance the person you call is correct. So 1 question is 95%. Similarly, we can say ask-the-audience gives you a 95% chance. Finally, 50-50 will remove 2 wrong answers, so you have 1 right answer and 1 wrong answer, so you basically know the answer. To recap: wew
Colton Wright
u wot m8?
Connor Butler
jeopardy is just a game of luck too
Ryder Myers
That's not how it works. The chance to get it right is 0.25 and the chance to get it right twice in a row is 0.0625.
The chance to get it right 15 times in a row is 0.000000000931322574615478515625 (practically impossible).
Noah Campbell
>0.25+0.25=0.0625
are you actually retarded?
Jayden Carter
whataboutism
Asher Thompson
Come on Italy, I thought you were smarter than atleast mexico
Brayden Peterson
Great post
Oliver Williams
is- is this pasta?
This is incredibly wrong, but tastes like pasta.
Ryder White
With that logic, nobody would ever get a post with a number like 99999999
>Finally, 50-50 will remove 2 wrong answers, so you have 1 right answer and 1 wrong answer, so you basically know the answer. that makes sense to me
Luis Murphy
The new version of this show got rid of Phone a Friend. Then again, this show hasn't been the same since Regis left.
Aiden Young
that's not how probability work you fucking braindead brit. Yes the probability for each question is 33.3333333333333...........% but the chances of getting them right 15 times in a row are virtually 0 unless you happen to know the answers
