Question 1198194: You select a family with children. If M represents a male child and F a female child, the set of equally likely outcomes for the children's genders is shown below. Find the probability of selecting a family with at least two female children.
{MMM,MMF,MFM,MFF,FMM,FMF,FFM,FFF}
Answer by ikleyn(52873)   (Show Source):
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From the list of 8 listed triples, there are exactly 4 triples that have two or three Fs.
Therefore, the answer to the problem's question is  =  .
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Solved, with explanations.
In plain English, the names of these members of a family are boys for M and girls for F.
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