Question 589515: If the couple plans to have 2 boys and 5 girls, how many different gender sequences are possible? Please show work. Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If the couple plans to have 2 boys and 5 girls, how many different gender sequences are possible? Please show work.
-----
There are 5C2 = 10 ways to space the 2 boys amoung the 5 children:
bbggg
gbbgg
ggbbg
gggbb
------
bgbgg
bggbg
bgggb
ggbgb
gbgbg
=====================
Cheers,
Stan H.
(