Question 1178696
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Assume that male and female births are equally likely and that the birth of any
child does not affect the probability of the gender of any other children. 
Find the probability of at most five girls in ten births.
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It is a binomial distribution probability problem.

    - number of trials         n =  10;
    - number of success trials k <=  5;
    - Probability of success on a single trial p = 0.5.



We need calculate  P(n=10; k<=5; p=0.5).      


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It provides nice instructions  and  a convenient input and output for all relevant options/cases.


    P(n=10; k<=5; p=0.5) = 0.623046875,   or   0.6230 (rounded).       <U>ANSWER</U>
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Solved.


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