Maria and JoshMaria and Josh want to have both a male and a female child. If the
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Maria and JoshMaria and Josh want to have both a male and a female child. If they decide to continue to have children until they have one of each gender, what would the average number of children be? Assume that boys and girls are equally likely. Let the digits 0 to 4 represent a male child and the digits 5 to 9 represent a female child. Twenty trials were randomly generated. Use each of the numbers as a separate trial.
27 063 3319 81 134048 44219 6990 5974 20429 61 45 7850 39 570 64 4227 What is the average number of children Maria and Josh must have? (Type an integer or a decimal. Do not round)Explanation / Answer
average=sum/total
=863+144219+27+80+6990+20429+81+45+47+39+3319+49+662+64+5974+61+134048+7850+4227+570/20
=329644/20
=16482.2
ANSWER:16482.2