Question 05.
In a family having three children, there may be no girl, one girl, two girls or three girls. So, the probability of each is $\frac{1}{4}$ . Is this correcct ? Justify your answer.

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Solution

No, the probability of each is not $\frac{1}{4}$ because the probability of no girl in three children is one.
Justification
So, these evenets are not equally likely as outcome one girl, means gbb, bgb, bbg 'three girls' means 'ggg' ans so on.

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Question 05. In a family having three children, there may be no girl, one girl, two girls or three girls. So, the probability of each is 14. Is this correcct ? Justify your answer.

No, the probability of each is not 14 because the probability of no girl in three children is one. Justification So, these evenets are not equally likely as outcome one girl, means gbb, bgb, bbg 'three girls' means 'ggg' ans so on.

Question 05.
In a family having three children, there may be no girl, one girl, two girls or three girls. So, the probability of each is $\frac{1}{4}$ . Is this correcct ? Justify your answer.

No, the probability of each is not $\frac{1}{4}$ because the probability of no girl in three children is one.
Justification
So, these evenets are not equally likely as outcome one girl, means gbb, bgb, bbg 'three girls' means 'ggg' ans so on.