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I was so confused that I was calculating the probability that the gender of the second child is "male", instead of calculating the probability that both children are boys... 1/3
Day 3: Conditional Probability
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I was so confused that I was calculating the probability that the gender of the second child is "male", instead of calculating the probability that both children are boys... 1/3
same :) figured it out after I got it wrong the first time!
I still don't understand. Aren't "The second child is also a boy" and "Both children are boys" just two ways to say the same thing?