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What is the probability of a family having a boy after four girls?
The probability of a boy is still 0.5 no matter how many prior children there are.
What is the probability that a family continue to have children until they have a boy will have more than three children?
The answer to this is 1 minus the probability that they will have 3 or fewer children. This would happen only if they had a boy as the first, second or third child. The probability they have a boy as first child is 0.5 The probability they have a boy as second is 0.25 The probability they have a boy as third is 0.125 Thus the total probability is 0.875 And so the probability they will have more than three children is 1-0.875 or 0.125
What is the probability to have 2 girls and a boy in a family?
The 8 possible outcomes for three children are: * ggg * ggb * gbg * gbb * bgg * bgb * bbg * bbb Of these, two girls and a boy occurs 3 out of 8 times, which is a probability of 0.375. This assumes that the probability of a boy and girl being in the family is equal, which is not entirely true for a large number of reasons.
What is the probability of all boys with triplets?
Assuming the probability of a boy is 0.5, the probability of a boy and boy and boy is 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 = 0.125.
What is the probability of getting 3 girls in a family of 10 children?
The probability of exactly 3 girls in a family of 10 children, assuming equal chance of a boy or girl, is 0.1172. This is a binomial distribution.
