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An experiment consists of recording boy-girl composition of families with 2 childern.
(i) What is the sample space if we are interested in knowing whether it is a boy or girl in the order of their births?
(ii) What is the sample space if we are interested in the number of girls in the family?

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(i){BB, BG, GB, GG} (ii) {0, 1, 2}
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