SOLUTION: A family has eight children with different ages. If it is known that the firstborn is a female, what is the probability that there are exactly two female children in the family?

Question 1130392: A family has eight children with different ages. If it is known that the firstborn is a female, what is the probability that there are exactly two female children in the family?
Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The probability under the question is exactly equal to the probability that there is precisely one female of the rest 7 children,


and this probability is equal to   =  = 0.0547 = 5.47% (approximately).      ANSWER

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