Question 1134692: In a colony all families have at least two child.The probability that a randomly chosen family from this colony has exactly k children is
4/5*(1/5)^k-2;k=2,3... A child is either a male or a female with equal
probability.What will be the probability that a randomly selected family has
EXACTLY 2 boys?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20064)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! In a colony all families have at least two child.The probability that a randomly chosen family from this colony has exactly k children is
4/5*(1/5)^(k-2);k=2,3... A child is either a male or a female with equal
probability.What will be the probability that a randomly selected family has
EXACTLY 2 boys?
The probability of having EXACTLY 2 children is found by substituting 2 for k
in the formula
4/5*(1/5)^(2-2) = 4/5*(1/5)^0 = 45*1 = 4/5
There are 4 ways to have EXACTLY 2 children, BB, BG, GB, and GG. So we must divide 4/5 by 4.
Answer: 1/5
[Note: Maybe you wonder why we didn't divide by 2 instead of 4. That's
because there are just as many of one of the 4 cases as any of the others.]
Edwin
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