Three Children Using the same sample space and assumption from Exercise 33, find the probability that when a couple has three children, there are exactly two girls.

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34. Three Children Using the same sample space and assumption from Exercise 33, find the probability that when a couple has three children, there are exactly two girls. 

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family with three children 

we represent boy as B and girl as G

sample space : {BBB,BBG,BGB,BGG,GGG,GGB.GBG.GBB}

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