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Assume that the probability of a girl being born in .5 and the same is true for a boy. If we have 1,000 families with three children each, what would be the underlying distribution of the gender of the children? What would be the probability of randomly selecting a family with two girls and 1 boy?

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The probability of a girl being born over a boy is analyzed if each family has three children. The underlying distribution of the gender of children is determined.

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This distribution will be Bernoulli distribution.
Here, n = 1000, p = 0.5, q = 0.5
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