SOLUTION: assume that having a child with brown eyes or blue eyes are equally likely and that eye color is independent of the other children. What is the probability of have 5 children with

Question 1051060: assume that having a child with brown eyes or blue eyes are equally likely and that eye color is independent of the other children. What is the probability of have 5 children with brown eyes? With work shown.
Found 2 solutions by Boreal, Fombitz:
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It is the probability of one child (1/2) raised to the fifth power, since children are assmed to be independent. That is 1/32, coming from (1/2)^5
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 2^5 possible outcomes.
One of them is 5 brown eyed children.

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