Given a family with three children, find the probability of the event. The oldest is a boy and the youngest is a girl, given t

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hat there is at least one boy and at least one girl.

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mafiozo [28] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-23T02:57:08+03:00

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Answer:

The possible cases of the children in increasing order of age are

1) Boy,Boy,Girl

2)Boy,Girl,Boy

3)Girl,Boy,Boy

4)Girl,Girl,Boy

5)Girl,Boy,Girl

6)Boy,Girl,Girl

The favorable cases in our event are 2 numbered 4 and 5

Thus the required probability is

$P(E)=\frac{2}{6}\\\\P(E)=\frac{1}{3}$

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