List all of the possible outcomes for a family with five children.

Question

There are the possibility of five girls, five boys, or mixed in a family. The girl's names are gloria, gilda, gail, gerri, gina. The boy's names are Benson, Berndt, Blair, Blake, and Brett.

Answer 1

Your possibilities are:  5 girls, 5 boys, 1 girl and 4 boys, 2 girls and 3 boys, 3 girls and 2 boys, or 4 girls and 1 boy.  Now, if the names actually matter, that makes it a lot harder.  For examples, if you have 1 girl and 4 boys, you could have Gloria, Benson, Berndt, Blair and Blake.  Or you could have Gilda, Benson, Berndt, Blair and Blake.  Or you could have Gail, Benson, Berndt, Blair, and Blake, etc.  I doubt that is what your teacher is looking for, because that would be a LOT of possibilities to list.