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Find the expected number of boys in a family with 8 children, assuming the sex distribution to be equally probable.

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Here, ` n=8`
Let ` p` be the probability of number of boys in the family.
`p=frac{1}{2}, q=frac{1}{2}`
Expected number of boys` = mean`
`Rightarrow n p=4`
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