2007-04-10 06:27:36 · 12 answers · asked by kruk189 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The answer has nothing to do with genes.
It has to do with whether the sperm cell that fertilizes the egg this time around has an 'X' or 'Y' sex chromosome on it.
Female sex chromosomes are always 'X', since human females are 'XX'. Males are 'XY'. So the mother always donates an 'X' chromosome to a child, while the father can donate either an 'X' (making the offspring female) or a 'Y' (making the offspring male). These sex chromosomes split up into individual cells during a process called "meiosis" to make sex cells (egg & sperm).
Previous children might indicate a trend, but they don't affect this fertilization this time so the probability of a 6th child being male is just like all 5 before it: 1 in 2, or 50%.
2007-04-10 08:17:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a 1 in 5 chance. Sorry....50/50 for some who don't get it.
It all depends on the genes. I think the father carries the male/female genes. Not 100% sure. Some will have up to 10 kids all the same sex until they give up! lol
2007-04-10 06:31:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
50/50 there is no effect on the probability of a 6th child, however in this day and age 6 children are far too many to send to college and therefore not worth it.
2007-04-10 06:55:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
to respond to for a instructor it should be C yet in all truth E is in all likelihood a extra acceptable answer because the prospect of each newborn being a boy is a million/2, the most suitable danger of six immediately boys is: (a million/2)*(a million/2)*(a million/2)*(a million/2)*(a million/2)*(a million/2) = a million/sixty 4 = 0.015625 = a million.5625% My factor is that even notwithstanding the gender of each successive newborn is a 50/50 probability, having a string of six boys (or women) out of the sixty 4 entire possible boy/lady combos is very uncommon!
2016-12-03 19:16:08 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
50/50. There are only two genders, male and female. The genders of siblings has nothing to do with the gender of a sixth child.
2007-04-10 06:32:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
50 percent. The answer has nothing to do with the fact that they have all sons. It is a fifty percent chance no matter what
2007-04-10 08:16:14 · answer #6 · answered by Dior Princess 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
50%. The sexes of the other children have no bearing on which sperm will fertilize the next egg.
2007-04-10 06:36:56 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably slightly less than equal. This is not a coin-toss sort of operation, as certain genes apparently predominate.
2007-04-10 06:33:15 · answer #8 · answered by obelix 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
50%
2007-04-10 06:35:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
50%
2007-04-10 06:35:00 · answer #10 · answered by B-Love 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋