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390.Independent Family Events

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conditional probabilityCh. 2 — Axiomatic and Conditional Probability444+ Problems in Probability
A family has n2n \ge 2 children, each independently a boy or girl with probability 1/21/2. Let XX be the event that the family has at least one child of each gender, and YY the event that there is at most one girl. Find the unique nn for which XX and YY are independent.

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