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You select a family with four children. If M represents a male child and F represents a female child, the set of equally likely outcomes for the children's genders is (FFFF, FFFM, FFMF, FMFF, MFFF, MFFM, MFMF, MMFF, FEMM, FMFM, FMMF, FMMM,MEMM, MMFM, MMMF, MMMM). Find the probability of selecting a family with exactly zero female children.The probability of having exactly zero female children is __.

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The probability of having exactly zero female children is

1 divided by the set of children's genders or


(1)/(16)

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