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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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this is too easy, so easy that it scares me and i probably will mess up | Comment 18 of 24 |
obvioulsy 1/2. THERE ARE ONLY 2 GENDERS. also, they have equal probability. x+y * x+x = xx + xx + xy + xy 1/2 chance for male (xy), 1/2 chance for female (xx) DUUUUHH!!!!!!!! well, i can't believe there's no solution yet,,,
Edited on October 19, 2003, 11:56 am
  Posted by iggyb387 on 2003-10-15 20:43:25
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