Question

Medal
A couple is having a difficult time conceiving, so they decide to see a fertility doctor and take some fertility drugs to increase their probability of conceiving. Soon after, they discover they are pregnant. During the first ultrasound, the technician reveals that she is carrying quadruplets - 4 fraternal twins! Because there are four babies in the womb, the technician is unable to tell the gender of the babies.
(a) Find the probability that the quadruplets will all be girls. Express your answer as a fraction or an exact decimal - do not round.

Answer 1

(b) What is the probability that the couple will have 1 boy and 3 girls?


(c) What is the probability that the youngest three children will be male?

Answer 2

So first were gonna start with A. How many baby's are in the womb?

Answer 3

4

Answer 4

ok and we want them all to be girls correct

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

So you would have 4 babies in the womb and you want all 4 to be girls you would put that into a fraction. So if i have 4 pop tarts and i want them all strawberry i would have 4/4 strawberry pop tarts so what would this problem have in the fraction

Answer 7

4/4

Answer 8

or 4/8

Answer 9

Lets see is it answer choices or written out?

Answer 10

i think the answer is 4/8

Answer 11

because what if they have a boy

Answer 12

well it really couldn't be because, if there are 4 babies then they want all 4 to be girls for this problem so it would be 4/4 or 1 whole. Number 2 would be 1/4 or 0.25

Answer 13

and number 3 is 3/4 or 0.75

Answer 14

ohh i c

Answer 15

yeah can i get a medal

Answer 16

is that the answer for part a?

Answer 17

A. is 4/4 or 1 whole. B. is 1/4 or 0.25. And C. is 3/4 or 0.75

Answer 18

so can i get a medal now?