One-son Policy

By Steve Phelps
Last updated about 7 years ago
3 Questions
Note from the author:
AP Statistics
This is a simulation of the "One-Son Policy." To control a countries population, the leaders decide to allow families to continue to have children until they have a son. Under this policy, some families may only have one child. Other families may have many children. In the simulation, we simulate the number of children in 100 families.

What kind of probability model would best describe this scenario?

Estimate the median number of children a family will have.

How will the mean number of children in a family compare to the median number of children found in #2?