ON A SUNDAY MORNING THE OLDEST GIRL IN A FAMILY WAS MURDERED THE F RIDDLES WITH ANSWERS TO SOLVE - PUZZLES & BRAIN TEASERS

Because he liked to get up oily. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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1/3

This is a famous question in understanding conditional probability, which simply means that given some information you might be able to get a better estimate.

The following are possible combinations of two children that form a sample space in any earthly family:

Boy - Girl
Girl - Boy
Boy - Boy
Girl - Girl

Since we know one of the children is a boy, we will drop the girl-girl possibility from the sample space.
This leaves only three possibilities, one of which is two boys. Hence the probability is 1/3 Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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