Richard has just been given a 8-question multiple-choice quiz in his history class. Each question has five answers, of which only one is correct. Since Richard has not attended class recently, he doesn't know any of the answers. Assuming that Richard guesses on all eight questions, find the indicated probabilities. (Round your answers to three decimal places.)   a) Then use the fact that P(r ≥ 1) = 1 − P(r = 0).  equals: ______   b) Compare the two results. Should they be equal? Are they equal? If not, how do you account for the difference? select correct answer: They should be equal, but may not be due to table error. They should be equal,

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Richard has just been given a 8-question multiple-choice quiz in his history class. Each question has five answers, of which only one is correct. Since Richard has not attended class recently, he doesn't know any of the answers. Assuming that Richard guesses on all eight questions, find the indicated probabilities. (Round your answers to three decimal places.)
 
a) Then use the fact that P(r ≥ 1) = 1 − P(r = 0).  equals: ______
 
b) Compare the two results. Should they be equal? Are they equal? If not, how do you account for the difference? select correct answer:
They should be equal, but may not be due to table error.
They should be equal, but differ substantially.    
They should be equal, but may differ slightly due to rounding error.
They should not be equal, but are equal.
 
c) What is the probability that Richard will answer at least half the questions correctly?
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