SOLUTION: In a family with 7 children, excluding multiple births what is the probabilty of haveing 7 girls ? Assume that a girl is as lkkely as boy at birth? Want to know how to solve step b

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Question 680608: In a family with 7 children, excluding multiple births what is the probabilty of haveing 7 girls ? Assume that a girl is as lkkely as boy at birth? Want to know how to solve step by step to be able to understand please and thankyou.
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In a family with 7 children, excluding multiple births what is the probabilty of haveing 7 girls ? Assume that a girl is as lkkely as boy at birth? Want to know how to solve step by step to be able to understand please and thankyou.
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The probability of having a girl is 1/2 for each birth.
P(7 girls in 7 births) = (1/2)^7 = 1/128
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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