A man and his wife decide that they will keep having children until they have one of

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A man and his wife decide that they will keep having children until they have one of each sex. Ignoring the possibility of twins and supposing that each trial is independent and results in a boy or a girl with probability 1/2, what is the expected value of the number of children they will have?

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