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  • Question says:
    "mother has at least 1 boy..."
    So GG is not possible, leaving 3 possibilities, BG, GB, BB.

    "Out of those possibilities, what's the probability both kids are boys":

    1/3

    Yes, I agree. But, to remove the ambiguity, the question could say 'from a sample of famillies with at least one boy', in which case there are only three possible possibilities.

    On the other hand, if you think that a family was chosen at random (so GG is possible) and then a question asked about that question which happened to contain at least one boy then the answer is 1/2 I think

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