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Law of Large Numbers Failed


Problem:
There are two maternity hospitals in a town with 50 and 500 beds. Given full occupancy on a particular day, which of these hospitals is more likely to have equal no of boys and girls given probability of boys = probability of girls ? ‪

What would the answer intuitively be by #‎LawOfLargeNumbers‬? You would see #LawOfLargeNumbers does not seem to work here. How should the statement be positioned for #LawOfLargeNumbers to work? 



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