What if everyone who took the SAT guessed on every multiple-choice question?

<p>You know the famous “monkeys and typewriters” problem? Given a bunch of monkeys all randomly typing on keyboards, they will very likely produce words, sentences, pieces of literature, since each string of letters has a non-zero probability of being randomly typed.</p>

<p>Edit: <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I have even seen people use strategies like: “Oh, I haven’t picked option C in a while, not its turn for C, shooooooo” WOW :)</p>

<p>This was an amusing link, I also enjoyed the other two articles about Yoda and the baseball, too! Well worth reading and a fun example of math in the “real” world. Thanks!</p>

<p>If the probability were zero, it would be a “certainty.”
Since the probability is not zero, but so small that for any practical application it might as well be, it is indeed a “statistical certainty.”</p>

<p>[Probability</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability]Probability”>Probability - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>@RosaMichelle, did you take the 2012 AMC12A? The answers were pretty bizarre…</p>

<p>Everyone here is smart enough to know what “zero” means. But you are completely missing the point of the article. It’s not meant to be educational - quit being pedantic.</p>

<p>That would be stupid.</p>

<p>then we better pray that that person is very lucky that day…</p>

<p>never guess!!</p>

<p>omit the question if you dont have 2 out of 5 cross out</p>

<p>The implication is that you don’t need a perfect score to get a 2400.</p>

<p>If everybody guesses it would throw the curve, so feasibly there could be a perfect score if there is a super high statistical anomaly.</p>

<p>Whoa - guessing on every single question on the SAT? That’s gotta be … insane. LOL But if you were a very analytical person, the critical reading/writing parts might not require guessing after all.</p>

<p>Maybe doing some actual thinking would be a better strategy? Maybe?</p>

<p>LOLOL that’s funny. that would be a weird curve because college board needs to have a normal distribution one way or another.</p>

<p>I was going to say getting a perfect score by just guessing was possible but not probable. But after reading the article, it’s not even possible! Interesting.</p>