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The probability of a 4 child family having 4 girls is 0.5. is it true or false

User Radu Chivu
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Consider the phase space that consists of elements of the form (boy, boy, boy, boy), (girl, boy, boy, boy),...,(girl, girl, girl, girl).

There is a total of 2*2*2*2=2^4=16 possible combinations and each of them has the same probability to happen. Only one element is the case we are interested in (girl, girl, girl, girl).

Therefore, the probability of a family having 4 girls is


P(girl,girl,girl,girl)=(1)/(16)=0.0625

The answer is false, the probability is 0.0625

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