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Posted by akki
on 30/6/2009, 11:39 pm
A rustic village contains one million married couples and no children. Each couple has exactly one child per year. Each couple wants a girl, but also wants to minimize the number of children they have, so they will continue to have children until they have their first girl. Assume that children are equally likely to be born male or female. Let p(t) be the percentage of children that are female at the end of year t. What is p(t)? "Can't tell" is a potential answer if you don't have sufficient information.
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