Journal article

Gardner's two children problems and variations: Puzzles with conditional probability and sample spaces

KC STACEY

The Australian Mathematics Teacher | The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers Inc. | Published : 2014

Abstract

For 26 years Martin Gardner wrote a famous and very widely read mathematical puzzle column in the magazine Scientific American. In 1959, he published what he called The Two Children Problem, which presented two questions like this

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