Consider a family with exactly three children. Suppose that each child born is equally likely to be a boy or a girl. List the eight elements of the sample space.

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Let B represents a boy child and G represents a girl child.

The sample space S is {BBB, BBG, BGB, GBB, BGG, GBG, GGB, GGG}

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Consider a family with exactly three children. Suppose that each child born is equally likely to be a boy or a girl. List the eight elements of the sample space.

Let B represents a boy child and G represents a girl child. The sample space S is {BBB, BBG, BGB, GBB, BGG, GBG, GGB, GGG}

Let B represents a boy child and G represents a girl child.

The sample space S is {BBB, BBG, BGB, GBB, BGG, GBG, GGB, GGG}