SOLUTION: assume the probability is 1/2 that a child born is a girl if a family has three children. What is the probabilty of getting 1 girl is ___?
the probability of getting at most two
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Question 375979: assume the probability is 1/2 that a child born is a girl if a family has three children. What is the probabilty of getting 1 girl is ___?
the probability of getting at most two girls___?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
For children, there are possible outcomes.
GGG
GGB
GBG
GBB
BGG
BGB
BBG
BBB
Of those, the outcomes with 1 G are .
Getting at most two girls means not girls.
P(3 G)=
P(not 3 G)+P(3G)=
P(not 3 G)=P(at most 2G)=
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