toryswearingen toryswearingen
  • 06-03-2020
  • Mathematics
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A family has two children. What is the probability that both are girls, given that at least one is a girl?


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jimthompson5910 jimthompson5910
  • 06-03-2020

Answer:  1/3

Explanation:

Here are all of the ways to list the sample space. B = boy, G = girl

BB

BG

GB

GG

We see that there are 3 cases in which there is at least one girl in the family. There is only one case where we have both children being girls. So the probability is 1/3.

In other words, we don't focus on the case BB since we know that at least one child is a girl, so we just focus on {BG, GB, GG}, and we note that GG only happens once out of the three possibilities.

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