An instructor is planning on giving a multiple choice test. Recognizing that students may use a guessing strategy, she wants to deduct points for providing the wrong answer. The test will consist of 25 problems, each with 5 choices. The instructor will award 4 points for a correct answer, but wants the expected value of the grade to be 0 for a student who gueses. How would the penalty work?
What if the test consisted of 20 problems with 4 choices each? 5 points for a correct answer. What is the penalty?
What if the test had 30 problems with 3 choices each? 3 and 1/3 points for a correct answer. What's the penalty?
What if the test had 50 true/false type problems. 2 choices and 2 points for each correct answer. What's the penalty?
**If anyone can help to solve this problem, please tell me if there's some formula you have to use to solve it. I have a statistics book, but have no idea which formula, if any, I should use to solve it. Thanks!!!**
2006-06-12
17:20:59
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