Suppose that each child born is equally likely to be a boy or a girl, independently of the sex distribution of the other children in the family. For a family having 7 children, compute the probabilities of the following events: a) Not all children are of the same sex. b) Three children are boys and four are girls. c) At most two are boys. d) There is at least one girl.
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