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Peter Winkler shares some great variations of this: "Boy Born on Tuesday" (p. xix) and "Men with Sisters" (p. xxii) in "Mathematical Puzzles".

"Mrs. Chance has two children of different ages. At least one of them is a boy born on Tuesday. What is the probability that both of them are boys?"

(note: it is a puzzle, not a biology or data demography problem. so there are 50/50 independence assumptions on gender and uniform day of week assumptions prior to adding the conditioning.)

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