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Boys and girls. Alice and Bill are planning to have three
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Boys and girls. Alice and Bill are planning to have three children. (Assume it is equally likely for a boy or a girl to be born.) Give the probability as a decimal.
(Fill in the blank below and give your answer to 3 decimal places.)
What is the probability that all three of their children will be girls?
The probability that all three children will be girls is .
Found 3 solutions by jim_thompson5910, stanbon, ikleyn:
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
B = child is a boy
G = child is a girl
P(B) = 1/2 = 0.5
P(G) = 1/2 = 0.5
Because the events are independent, ie the gender of child1 doesn't affect the gender of child2 or child3, this means
P(3 girls) = P(girl and girl and girl)
P(3 girls) = P(girl)*P(girl)*P(girl)
P(3 girls) = P(G)*P(G)*P(G)
P(3 girls) = 0.5*0.5*0.5
P(3 girls) = 0.125
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Boys and girls. Alice and Bill are planning to have three children. (Assume it is equally likely for a boy or a girl to be born.) Give the probability as a decimal.
P(boy) = 1/2 = 0.5 ; P(girl) = 0.5
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(Fill in the blank below and give your answer to 3 decimal places.)
What is the probability that all three of their children will be girls?
The probability that all three children will be girls is 0.5^3 = 0.625
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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Answer by ikleyn(52798) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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= 0.125.
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