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A woman has two kids. One is a boy. What are the odds the other is a boy?

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100%
1.15%
 1 1.15%
50%
79.31%
 69 79.31%
33%
16.09%
 14 16.09%
25%
3.45%
 3 3.45%
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A woman has two kids. One is a boy. What are the odds the other is a boy?
Pistolero831
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2009-03-12, 02:13 PM
Opeth Wrote:But it's actually 33% chance to get heads in a row.

Its 50% to get heads the first time, 25% to get it again, 12.5% percent to get it three times. If the problem was like the baby situation where a man flips two coins and one of them is heads, then it's 33%
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A woman has two kids. One is a boy. What are the odds the other is a boy? - by Pistolero831 - 2009-03-12, 02:13 PM

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