0
The answer depends on whether the children are picked at random. If they were selected from inside a girls' school the probability should be quite close to 0. Likewise, if the children were picked inside a boys' school.
If six children are picked at random from a large group of children with an equal number of boys and girls, then the answer is
6C2*(1/2)6 = 15/32 = 0.47, approx.
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What is the probability of 4 boys in a family with 4 children?
In a family with four children, the probability of having four boys is 1 in 16.
What is the probability of having 3 children that are all boys?
1/8
What is the experimental probability that exactly 3 children in a family of 4 children will be boys?
4/16 or 0.2 or 25%
What is the probability of a family with six children having three boys and three girls?
50/50
The probability that a family with 3 children has 3 girls assuming that having boys and girls are equally likely?
50%
What is the probability of 4 boys in a family with 4 children?
In a family with four children, the probability of having four boys is 1 in 16.
What is the probability that a family of 5 children has exactly 3 boys?
6 out of 9.
What is the probability of having 3 children that are all boys?
1/8
What is the experimental probability that exactly 3 children in a family of 4 children will be boys?
4/16 or 0.2 or 25%
What is the probability of a family with six children having three boys and three girls?
50/50
What is the probability of having three girls and zero boys?
Assuming that having boys and girls are equally likely, then the probability is 1/8. * * * * * You also need to assume that the children's genders are independent. They are NOT and depend on the parents' ages and genes.
What will be the probability of 4 sons to a couple?
Since the probability of having a son is about 1/2, the probability of the first 4 children being boys is about (1/2)4.
The probability that a family with 3 children has 3 girls assuming that having boys and girls are equally likely?
50%
What is the probability of a 13 child family having 13 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 13 boys in a family with 13 children is approx 0.00019.
If a family has had 3 boys in a row what is the theoretical probability that the next child will be a girl?
The probability of having a boy or a girl is always 50/50 each time, regardless of previous outcomes. So the theoretical probability of having a girl after having three boys in a row is still 50%.
What is the probability of exactly 7 boys in 10 births when the birth of any child does not affect the probability of the gender of any other children?
This is a Binomial Probability; p=0.5, n=10 & x=7. Since you want the probability of exactly 7, in the related link calculator, after placing in the above values, P(x=7) = 0.1172 or 11.72%.
What is the probability of having 4 boys in 10 births?
25
