SOLUTION: the chances of having a girl or boy are about the same. Use a simulation to find the probability that a family that has three children will have two girls and one boy.

Question 262934: the chances of having a girl or boy are about the same. Use a simulation to find the probability that a family that has three children will have two girls and one boy.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the chances of having a girl or boy are about the same. Use a simulation to find the probability that a family that has three children will have two girls and one boy
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You have to run that with your own calculator or software.
Generate a random stream of 1's and 0's.
Each group of three digits represents a family of three.
Determine in advance whether girls are 1's and boy's
are 0's or vice versa.
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Look at as many groups of three as you wish: 25,50,or 100.
That is your simulation.
The probability is number of groups of three with 2 girls
divided by number of groups you used.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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