Question

An elementary class consists of 8 boys and 10 girls. A child is chosen at random and it is a girl. A second child is randomly chosen again from the remaining children, and it is a boy. Was the probability of choosing the boy dependent on choosing a girl first

Answer 1

Yes

Explanation:

So we know the second child was a boy however if the first child was a boy, the probability of getting a second boy would be 7/17 since one boy is missing and one person is missing from the total.

However, if a girl was chosen as the first child, the probability of getting a boy second would be 8/17 since no boys would be missing but one person would be missing from the original total.