We have been given that, there are 3 possible answers of the total 5 questions out of which only 1 answer is correct.
Let p be the probability of getting a correct answer out of the 3 alternative answers.
\(\Rightarrow\) p = \(\frac{1}{3}\)
Then, q is the probability of not getting a correct answer out of 3 alternatives.
Let X be any random variable representing a number of correct answers just be guessing out of 5 questions.
Then, the probability that the candidate would get r answers correct by just guessing out of 5 questions is given by this Binomial distribution.
Here, n = 5.
Substitute the value of n, p, and q in the above formula.
We need to find the probability that a candidate would get four or more correct answers just by guessing.
The probability can be expressed as,
Probability = P (X ≥ 4)
This is in turn can be written as,
P (X ≥ 4) = P (X = 4) + P (X = 5)
Put r = 4, 5 subsequently in equation (i) and then substitute in the above formula.
Hence, the probability that a candidate would get four or more correct answers just by guessing is 0.0453.
