You know the older child is a girl, so the only question is the younger one, and that’s a coin toss.
Mr Jones has two children. The older one is a girl. What is the chance that both children are girls?
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You already know about one child. Only the other is in question.
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One in two
Source: Martin Gardner, Mathematical Games, Scientific American, May 1959