Algebra and Trigonometry (6th Edition)
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An experiment consists of recording, in order of their births, the sex composition of a four-child family in which the children were born at different times. (Let b represent the birth of a boy and g represent the birth of a girl. Enter your answers using letter combinations separated by commas. Example: bgbg, gggg, ...)
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Describe an appropriate sample space S for this experiment.
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Describe the event E that there are three boys and a girl in the family.
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Describe the event F that the youngest child is a girl.
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Describe the event G that the oldest and the youngest children are both girls.
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