Question

An experiment consists of recording boy-girl composition of families with 2 children. The sample space if we are interested in the number of girls in the family is:

• A. $\{1,0\}$
• B. $\{3,2,1,0\}$
• C. $\{2,1\}$
• D. $\{2,1,0\}$

Answer 1

The correct option is D $\{2,1,0\}$

The sample space if we are interested in the number of girls in the family when there are two children in the family is obtained as: $S=\{2,1,0\}$