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Comment author: ike 16 March 2015 08:22:35PM 1 point [-]

That one is evil.

Assuming the question was known in advance, the obvious solution is for the people who care more about their grades to pay those who care less to circle A while circling B themselves. If they trust each other, they might even be able to do this after-the-fact.

The universalizing answer would be to choose A 51% of the time.

What was the ratio of As?

Comment author: James_Miller 16 March 2015 09:39:01PM 1 point [-]

What was the ratio of As?

It was several years ago and I don't remember.