Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 5:29pm.
If the chances are equally likely, then the outcome of two children would be one boy and one girl, correct?
I am supposed to figure out the probabilities of each statement...does anyone know how to do that?
In the question you are dealing with a 1/2 probability rate, so in
a-it wouls be 2 of the 1/2 rates which is 25%
b-it would be the same b/c its still two 1/2 senerios, so 25% again
c-same thing 25%
d-this is a 75% chance b/c the secod child is still an unknown factor and could be either a girl or boy
Thank you so much. I understood there was a 50% chance of a boy and a 50% chance of a girl, I just didn't know how to equate the probabilities.
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