Family size making two gender events independent
Question
A family has children, each independently a boy or a girl with probability . Let be the event that both sexes are represented among the children, and let be the event that there is no more than one girl. For which single value of are and independent?
Short answer
. , , and means exactly one girl, . Independence requires , i.e. , whose only solution is .
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- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Independence
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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