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I would answer 0%.
You say the answer is 50%. So 25% is not the right answer to the question, right? So you only have 25% chance of randomly selecting 50%, and therefore, 50% is the wrong answer.
So the answer is 25%, but you have 50% chance of picking 25%, so it's wrong again.
You can't solve it: the answer is 0%.
But that would mean 0% is the correct answer.
So theres a 25% chance of picking 0% as the correct answer.
The correct answer changes depending on what answer you picked.
Its a Schrodingers probability question.
If 0% is not the right answer, that confirms that no matter what you pick at random, this is not the right answer: your chances of picking it are 0.
As much as you can loop to demonstrate the other answers are all wrong, you demonstrate 0 is the correct answer by a loop also.
You didn't follow what that means though. If 0% is the correct answer, a random guess has a 25% chance of hitting it. It loops.
Therefore 0 is not the right answer, and your chances of picking the right answer are 0.
It also loops, positively this time.