dinosaur

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   by dinosaur 18y ago

   Sorry; you are definitely right about that. I was so focused on the mom with the T-shirt that I did not even think about being able to count the states with the girl, but yes, the answer is obviously 50%.
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   by dinosaur 18y ago

   No, I don't think the label "picked up from a police station" affects the problem the way you are thinking. What I believe you are not accounting for is that there are twice as many mixed families in the population as there are pure girl f
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   by dinosaur 18y ago

   Can you give me your reasoning? I think the only conclusions you can get from that quote is that the person has two children, and at least one of those is a girl. Do you disagree with that? If I am correct about that, then it matches the
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   by dinosaur 18y ago

   I don't agree; Jeff was not giving a quote. Instead it is just the relevant information abstracted from whatever the person said. By choosing the quote you did, you have added more information to the problem (at least when reading it with
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   by dinosaur 18y ago

   I'm not sure what you mean be equivalent, but the relevant point is that a family is twice as likely to have one boy and one girl than have two girls.