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Aniket and kumari are a married couple. They have two kids, one of them is a girl. Assume safely that the probability of each gender is 1/2.What is the probability that the other kid is also a girl?
A1/2
B1/3
C2/3
DNone of these
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There are 4 possible conditions of two children.
Girl – Girl, Girl – Boy, Boy – Girl, Boy - Boy
Since we know one of the children is a girl, we will drop the Boy-Boy possibility from the sample space.
This leaves only three possibilities, one of which is two girls. Hence the probability is 1/3
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There are 4 possible conditions of two children.
Girl – Girl, Girl – Boy, Boy – Girl, Boy - Boy
Since we know one of the children is a girl, we will drop the Boy-Boy possibility from the sample space.
This leaves only three possibilities, one of which is two girls. Hence the probability is 1/3
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