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Question
Suppose that each child born is equally likely to be a boy or a girl. Consider a family with exactly three children. List the eight elements in the sample space whose outcomes are all possible genders of the three children.
Solution
All possible genders are expressed as:
S = {BBB, BBG, BGB, BGG, GBB,GBG, GGB, GGG}
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