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After having a sonogram a pregnant woman learns that she will have twins, find the probability of identical twins given that the twins consist of two boys

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User Rendom
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What you need to do is the following:
Calculate the total number of identical twins which will be 2+2 = 4. and then total of twins is 12. The probability for her to have identical twins will be known with the following formula:
Identical twins = 4 / 12
that is 0.3333
The probability is 0.3333
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