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Question 1006141: You select a family with three children. If M represents a male child and F a female child ,the set of equally likely children's genders is shown below . Find the probability of selecting a family with at least one female child. {MMM,MMF,MFM,MFF,FMM,FMF,FFM,FFF} Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Seven of the eight possible families have at least one girl. Thus the probability is 7/8 or 87.5%.
