SOLUTION: A mother has two children, each of whom has two pairs of jeans in the wash. If the jeans are returned randomly to the children, what is the probability that each child gets the co

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Question 353645: A mother has two children, each of whom has two pairs of jeans in the wash. If the jeans are returned randomly to the children, what is the probability that each child gets the correct two pairs of jeans?

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Each child has two possible jeans, the right or the wrong pair.
So for each child the probability of the correct pair is,

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