Stan and Samantha are the proud parents of three little girls.They decide to have one more child because it seems like they are due to have a boy.Stan and Samantha think that most families have both boys and girls therefore they figure the probability the next child will be a boy is high.Stan and Samantha:
A) are correct,since the odds of each sex are 50-50,they are due for a boy
B) have confused representativeness with probability
C) have confused availability with probability
D) are generating an algorithm to solve their problem to have a boy
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