Posted by: Arrogant October 5, 2010
Statistics help please!
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The answer is 1/3


Alright, Let me try to Solve it.

So, you said Couple has 2 kids and one of them is girl. So, The combination of having 2 kids (Boy and Girl) would be :


Girl - Girl
Girl--Boy
Boy-Girl

Boy-Boy


Since one of them is already a Girl which leads us to elimination of Boy-Boy combination. Therefore, the probability that the other is a girl to is 1/3 .

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