Assume that each born child is equally likely to be a boy or a girl. If a family has two children, what is the conditional probability that both are girls given that (i) the youngest is a girl, (ii) at least one is a girl?

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anonymous · Answer

this is the kind of problem where you can write out all possibilities since there aren't that many:

having 2 kids. there are only 4 possible outcomes:

boy, boy
girl, girl
boy, girl
girl, boy

[i] youngest is a girl: 2 of the 4 outcomes have girl second. so the probability is 2/4 = 1/2 = 50%

[ii] 3 of the 4 possibilities satisfy at least one being a girl. answer is 3/4 or 75%

anonymous · Answer

girl 2nd means she is younger?
like b,g means boy is older and girl is younger?