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Boy or Girl

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  • Aug 4 2010 11:13 PM

    Ninfa Vega

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This classic mathematical logic problem has stumped many over the years. This problem asks, "In a two-child family, one child is a boy. What is the probability that the other child is a girl?" This resource is part of the Math Forum, an online math education community center.

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    Topics: Probability, Calculus, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability

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