Question

Kaia's mom is having triplets. Each baby could be either male or female

Which outcome would be included in the compound event more than one

male"?

First Second Third

baby baby baby

M

Sample space

outcomes

MMM

F

MMF

MEM



A. MFM

B. FFM

C. MFF

D. FMF

Answer 1

MMM

Explanation:

Given

See attachment for elements of the sample space (in a probability tree)

Required

Which of MMM, FFM, MFF, FMF represents more than one male?

From the question, we understand that:

`M \to Male`

`F \to Female`

So, for an event to represent more than 1 male, there must be an occurrence of at least 2 M (i.e 2 M or 3 M)

From the given options, only MMM has more than 1 M.

Hence, MMM represents more than one Male