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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ironically you've got the right answer, but (as you can see in some of the other conversation here) not necessarily for the right reason. It's not necessarily that BG and GB are the same, but that BB and BB are two different scenarios worthy of being counted separately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Why is it that BB and BB are being counted separately? I thought that order didn’t matter: you could have two girls, a boy and a girl (or vice versa, same thing), or a two boys. (And then by eliminating two girls you’d have a 50/50 chance).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Because describing it as I did in that comment is a (very) shorthand way of getting at how it was explained in full by @[email protected] in this comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Just read it: makes sense now. Thanks!