Question

Statistics and Probability

A couple has three children. Consider the following two events:

A—the middle child is a girl

C—the three children are of the same gender

These problems are open ended. Please enter your responses BEFORE you check the answer. It's important that you work through the problems and compare them against the feedback you're given.

In the box below, answer the following:

1. What are the possible outcomes for each of these events?
2. Do the events share any of the outcomes? (i.e., is there an overlap between the two events?)
3. Based on ii, are the events disjoint or not?

Consider the following two events:

A—exactly one of the three children is a girl

C—exactly one of the three children is a boy

In the box below, answer the following:

1. What are the possible outcomes for each of these events?
2. Do the events share any of the outcomes? (i.e., is there an overlap between the two events?)
3. Based on ii, are the events disjoint or not?

Answer 1