390.Independent Family Events
★★★conditional probabilityCh. 2 — Axiomatic and Conditional Probability444+ Problems in Probability
A family has children, each independently a boy or girl with probability . Let be the event that the family has at least one child of each gender, and the event that there is at most one girl. Find the unique for which and are independent.
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Write , , and as functions of and solve .
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