probability

pappueshwar wrote:The probability of a new born baby is a boy is 50% and that of a new born baby is a girl is 50%. Ten mothers are going to give birth to ten babies this morning. What is the probability that at least two babies are boys?

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even if one hundred moms will give birth to one hundred babies the probability won't change and will stay the same 50% boy vs. girl for 100 replications. Hence P(at least 2 boys)=P(2 boys)+P(3 boys)+...P(10 boys) or find the complement P(at least 2 boys)=1-P(No boys)-P(1 boy)

P(No boys)=(0.5)^10 and here only one way. Now to find P(1 boy) we will use combination of 10C1 ways for each of one boy success birth rate -> (10C1)*(0.5)^10=10*(1/32)^2=
= 10/1024=5/512

Thus, P(at least 2 boys)=1 -1/1024 -5/512= (1024-1-10)= 1013/1024