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Channel: MindYourDecisions
Categories: Brain Teasers   |   Math  
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This problem has been asked in job interviews. On the morning of January 1, a hospital nursery has 3 boys and some number of girls. That night, a woman gives birth to a child, and the child is placed in the nursery. On January 2, a statistician conducts a survey and selects a child at random from the nursery (including the newborn and every child from January 1). The child is a boy. What is the probability the child born on January 1 was a boy? There are a couple of neat counter-intuitive parts of this problem. Can you figure it out? Watch the video for a solution.

My blog post on this video
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Math StackExchange
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/214680/simple-bayes-theorem-question

GlassDoor Interview Question For Susquehanna International Group, LLP
https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Hospital-has-three-boys-and-an-unknown-number-of-girls-A-mother-has-a-baby-A-nurse-picks-up-a-baby-at-random-and-it-is-a-QTN_223227.htm

Math By Matt (2 boys case)
https://matthewhr.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/probability-that-your-wife-had-a-boy/

Quora (2 boys case)
https://www.quora.com/What-interview-questions-would-be-typical-for-a-quantitative-finance-company-such-as-Jane-Street-Capital#

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