An experiment consists of recording the boy-girl composition of families with $2$ children. What is the sample space if we are interested in the number of girls in the family?

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(N/A) Since the maximum number of children in each family is $2$,a family can have $2$ girls,$1$ girl,or $0$ girls.
Therefore,the sample space $S$ for the number of girls is $S = \{0, 1, 2\}$.

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