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What is the probability of having 3 children that are all boys?
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What is the probability of having three boys in a row?
This question is extremely poorly phrased. The probability of three boys [sitting] in a row at an all boys school is 1. At an all girls school it is 0 and is otherwise somewhere in between. If the question is about birth order, do you take account of the fact that nearly half the families have two or fewer children? So that in half the cases the probability is 0. Finally, children's genders are not independent events. They depend on the parents' ages and their genes. However, if you assume that they are independent events then, given that the probability of a boy is approx 0.52, the probability of giving birth to three boys in a row is 0.523 = 0.1381
At least one child in a family with two children is a boy the the probability that both children are boys?
There is no simple answer.First of all, the probability of boys is 0.517 not0.5.Second, the probabilities are not independent.If you choose to ignore these important facts, then the answer is 2/3.
A women is going to have 6 children What is the probability that all 6 will be boys?
if we assume that the probability for a girl being born is the same as a boy being born: (1/2)^6 = 0.015625 = 1.5625%
What is the probability that a couple would have a family of four children two boys and two girls and in that order?
There is no simple answer to the question because the children's genders are not independent events. They depend on the parents' ages and their genes. However, if you assume that they are independent events then, given that the probability of a boy is approx 0.52 in all cases, the overall probability is 0.0624.
What is the probability that a couple with 3 children will have at least 1 girl?
The easiest way of calculating this is to find the probability that all three are boys, as this is the only arrangement that does not fit the criteria. Then work out the answer by taking this away from 1. Probability that all three are boys = 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 = 1/8. probability of there being at least one girl is 1 - 1/8 = 7/8 or 87.5%
What is the probability that a coulple with three children will have three boys?
There is no simple answer to the question because the children's genders are not independent events. They depend on the parents' ages and their genes. However, if you assume that they are independent events then, given that the probability of a boy is approx 0.52, the probability that all three children are boys is approx 0.1381
What is the probability of having three boys in a row?
This question is extremely poorly phrased. The probability of three boys [sitting] in a row at an all boys school is 1. At an all girls school it is 0 and is otherwise somewhere in between. If the question is about birth order, do you take account of the fact that nearly half the families have two or fewer children? So that in half the cases the probability is 0. Finally, children's genders are not independent events. They depend on the parents' ages and their genes. However, if you assume that they are independent events then, given that the probability of a boy is approx 0.52, the probability of giving birth to three boys in a row is 0.523 = 0.1381
What is the probability that a family with four children has all boys given that the first two are boys?
There is no simple answer to the question because the children's genders are not independent events. They depend on the parents' ages and their genes. However, if you assume that they are independent events then, given that the probability of a boy is approx 0.52, the probability of the other two being boys is 0.2672.
At least one child in a family with two children is a boy the the probability that both children are boys?
There is no simple answer.First of all, the probability of boys is 0.517 not0.5.Second, the probabilities are not independent.If you choose to ignore these important facts, then the answer is 2/3.
What is the probability of getting three boys out of three children?
I wouldn't say it's very probable. My neighbor has three children and they're all boys. It just depends on the mother and father.
A women is going to have 6 children What is the probability that all 6 will be boys?
if we assume that the probability for a girl being born is the same as a boy being born: (1/2)^6 = 0.015625 = 1.5625%
What is the probability that a couple would have a family of four children two boys and two girls and in that order?
There is no simple answer to the question because the children's genders are not independent events. They depend on the parents' ages and their genes. However, if you assume that they are independent events then, given that the probability of a boy is approx 0.52 in all cases, the overall probability is 0.0624.
What is the probability that a couple with 3 children will have at least 1 girl?
The easiest way of calculating this is to find the probability that all three are boys, as this is the only arrangement that does not fit the criteria. Then work out the answer by taking this away from 1. Probability that all three are boys = 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 = 1/8. probability of there being at least one girl is 1 - 1/8 = 7/8 or 87.5%
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.
Mr and mrs clatter have 5 children- half of them are boys how is this possible?
All of them are boys.
A woman has seven children Half of them are boys How is this possible?
ALL the children are boys, so 1/2 half are boys and so is the other half.
What is the probability that all of the children in a family of five children will be boys?
The genders of children within the same family are not independent. So the answer will depends on the pattern of children's gender in the family's ancestry, as well as the age of the parents. However, if you make the unreasonable and unjustified assumption that the genders are independent and that the probability of either gender is 1/2, then the answer is (1/2)5 = 1/32.
