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The Last Baby (Posted on 2003-10-08) Difficulty: 4 of 5
A baby is added to a hospital nursery. Before the baby was added there were two boys in the nursery and an uncounted number of girls. After the new baby is added a baby is selected at random among all the babies. The selected baby is a boy.

What is the probability that the added baby was a girl?

See The Solution Submitted by Ravi Raja    
Rating: 2.7778 (9 votes)

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does the lightbulb mean they're right? | Comment 4 of 24 |
then why does it still say no solution yet on teh thing????

Something that gets me is that you say a baby was added to the nursery, yet you talk about boys and girls... you automatically assume that they're babies. so I agree that it's one half, but simply because there's a chance it's either a boy or a girl, and there's just the one baby.

  Posted by matt white on 2003-10-08 13:35:35
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