Re: The two child problem

["Donald E. Simanek" <dsimanek@eagle.lhup.edu>]

On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, E. Leonard Jossem wrote:

> For the "two child problem":
>
> A man has two children, the older is a son.
> A woman has two children, one of which is a son
> Which is more likely to have two sons?
>
> There is one solution, not excluded by the statement of the problem, which
> I do not recall having seen mentioned, viz:  that the man and the woman are
> married to each other and the children are their own.  In which case the
> answer is clear.

In the statement of the problem, Marilyn specifically stated that the man
and the woman were not married to each other.

	-- Donald