An experiment consists of boy girl composition of families with 2 children. 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 boys in a family?

Answer

N/a

Explanation

(i)When the child boy is B and girl is `G` then sample space `={BB,BG,GB,GG}`
(ii) Here no, of girls in first family `=0`
No. of girls in second family `=1`
No. of girls in third family `=1`
No. of girls in fourth family `=2`
`:.` For the number of girls
sample space `={0,1,2}`