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Suppose that the genders of the three children of a family are soon to be revealed. An outcome is represented by a string of the sort GBB (meaning the oldest child is a girl, the second oldest is a boy, and the youngest is a boy). The 8
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\n" ); document.write( "For each of the three events in the table, check the outcome(s) that are contained in the event. Then, in the last column, enter the probability of the event.
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\n" ); document.write( "Each boy-girl combination has probability (1/2)^3 = 1/8
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