SOLUTION: Identify the sample space of the probability experiment: determining the children's gender for a family of 3 children (Use B for boy and G for girl.).

Question 1152722: Identify the sample space of the probability experiment: determining the children's gender for a family of 3 children (Use B for boy and G for girl.).
Answer by ikleyn(52848) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The sample space in this case is the set of all words of the length 3, written in the 2-letter alphabet {B,G}.


In other words, it is the set


    BBB
    BBG
    BGB
    BGG
    GBB
    GBG
    GGB
    GGG

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