Answer to Question #297570 in Statistics and Probability for Kimberly

Question

A family has four children. If x is a random variable that pertains to the number of female children, what are the possible values of x

Answer 1

Since there are four children in this family then, number of girls can either be 0(no girl), 1(there is only one girl), 2(there are two girls only), 3(there are three girls) or 4(all the children are girls). Therefore the random variable X can take on values, 0,1,2,3,4.

Hence, possible values for X: 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4.