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Chapter 4: Q.4.14 (page 170)
A family has n children with probability where
(a) What proportion of families has no children?
(b) If each child is equally likely to be a boy or a girl (independently of each other), what proportion of families consists of k boys (and any number of girls)?
The answer of part (a) is
Part (b) is
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