An experiment consists of recording boy-girl composition of families with $2$ children. What is the sample space if we are interested in knowing whether it is a boy or girl in the order of their births ?
An experiment consists of recording boy-girl composition of families with $2$ children. What is the sample space if we are interested in knowing whether it is a boy or girl in the order of their births ?
When the order of the birth of a girl or a boy is considered, the sample space is given by
$S=\{ GG , \,GB ,\, BG ,\, BB \}$
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