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At the risk of starting another argument in this already lengthy discussion, JKing, there is in fact no difference in saying "given a family with three children, two of which are boys, what is the chance that the other child is a girl?" or saying "Given a family with three children, if randomly...
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- Jul 24, 2007
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Another math problem

JKing, if you must use event space to solve this question, your event space should be defined as this: The father introduced two male children, we don't know which two, so, the event space is: BB? B?B ?BB And in each case, the ? can be either B or G. Therefore, the answer is 3/6 =...
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- Jul 24, 2007
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Another math problem

JKing, if you must use event space to solve this question, your event space should be defined as this: The father introduced two male children, we don't know which two, so, the event space is: BB? B?B ?BB And in each case, the ? can be either B or G. Therefore, the answer is 3/6 =...
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- Post #96
- Jul 24, 2007
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Another math problem

:D I cannot believe this question has gotten so "controversial". The answer is clearly 50%. Probability questions can get tricky when the conditions are introduced, sometimes falsely, as is in this case. The best way to analyze this, is to go back to the principles. The question already...
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- Post #94
- Jul 24, 2007
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