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What would the question have to be to make the following the answer?

Suppose we label the combinations of child-day BM, GM, BT, GT ... BU, GU (14 items). We have two buckets which both contain a copy of each combination (total 28, 14 in each bucket). The problem states that we have taken one "BT" item out of one bucket, and are asking how many "B" items are left in the other bucket (7 out of 14).



That would be two parents having one child each, one of whom says his only son was born tuesday, and asking what 's the probability the other guy has a son.




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