A simple probability question
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Mr. Smith has two children. If the older child is a boy, what are the odds that the other child is also a boy?
The boy/girl odds for a single child are 51/49–males are slightly more likely than girls. Oddly, after having a boy, the odds are 50/50 for the second child to be a boy, even though the odds for a third boy after the first two are boys jumps up to 52.3%.
So the correct answer is also the intuitive answer: 50%
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