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Assumethat each born child is equally likely to be a boy or a girl. If a family hastwo children, what is the conditional probability that both are girls? Giventhat

(i) the youngest is a girl

(ii) at least one is girl.



Answer -

(i) Let'A' be the event that both the children born are girls.

Let 'B'be the event that the youngest is a girl.

We haveto find conditional probability P(A/B).

(ii) Let'A' be the event that both the children born are girls.

Let 'B'be the event that at least one is a girl.

We haveto find the conditional probability P(A/B).

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