5 mothers can each have a boy and a girl. How many possibilities does a mother have to have a boy or a girl?

Answer 1

Possibility - dunno - you say they CAN each have a boy and a girl - but first they have to get and carry a pregnancy

However, the probability is approximately a half. Actually the real probability is around 51% boy, 49% girl. But 50-50 is close.

However, if the first baby a woman has is a boy, there is still a 50% probability that a second child is a boy. The probability of a third child being a boy is also 50% (or 0.5). Each event is totally independent of the others.

Now, if you really mean how many combinations or permutations five mothers have for child gender, then the answer is 32 ... 2 to the power of 5 ....2x2x2x2x2
Mother 1 could have either B or G
Mother 2 could have either B or G
So mothers 1 and 2 can have BB, BG, GB, GG (2x2)

and so on

Answer 2

it's always 50/50 if a mother will have a boy or a girl - regardless of how many of one sex they have had before. For permutations if each mother can only have 2 children...

Mom1 - BB
GG
BG
GB
If a mother will have two children there are 4 ways she can have them For 5 mothers you just times it by 4 and it is 20.

Answer 3

two chances. 50% for girl and 50% for boy.

Answer 4

two, one for the boy and one for the girl.

Answer 5

Its still half i guess