[Math] Probability of number of random answers being correct.

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My teacher gave us a true-false test with 100 "questions." Only there were no questions. He had an answer key and was trying to prove that if we answered true and false questions randomly, the class average would be around 50%. I got 7 right out of 100, so, of course, 93 wrong out of 100. He said that he had never had a score that far from the mean.

What is the probability of getting only 7 true-false questions out of 100 correct?

Best Answer

Very small. To get at most 7 right, $$ \sum_{k= 0}^7 {100\choose k}{1\over 2^{100}}.$$ This is a wee-tiny number.