How many children do Person X and Y have?

[Vagrant]

Hi, I'd appreciate help with this problem;

Person X and Y have equal number of kids. There are 3 movie tickets. The probability that 2 tickets go to kids of one and 1 ticket goes to the kids of other is 6/7. How many kids do X and Y have?

Thanx

 

[quasar987]

Supposing each way of distributing the tickets is of equal probability, you can find and expression using combinatorics for the desired probability in terms of N (the number of kids). Then set the probability equal to 6/7 and solve for N.

 

[Vagrant]

sorry, but i don't see any connection between the data given and no. of kids, except that both have 2 or more kids. Could u please be more definite.
Thanx for ur help.

 

[Muzza]

Let X have N children, and Y have N children. For starters, how many ways are there to distribute the 3 tickets among the 2N children?

 

[Vagrant]

Well, i used Baye's theorem n I'm getting the no. of children to be 4, which is correct, thank You for your help.

 

[ssd]

Well, i used Baye's theorem n I'm getting the no. of children to be 4, which is correct, thank You for your help.

Baye's theorem is not reqiured:
2(nC2)(nC1)/(2nC3)=6/7 . Solving we get, n=4.