If a couple is planning to have 4 children, what is the probability that they would be all boys or all girls?

Mathematics · College · Thu Feb 04 2021

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Each child has a probability of being a girl/boy is 1/2.

If there are 4 children in the family, the probability of all the four being girls/boys is (1/2)⁴ = 1/16.

 

Thus, probability of having 4 girls or 4 boys is 1/16 or 0.0625