Compute the probability that woman descendents will die out

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Question: Consider a branching process as defined in 1.55, in which each family has exactly three children, but invert Galton and Watson's original motivation and ignore male children. In this model a mother will have an average of 1.5 daughters. Compute the probability that a given woman's descendents will die out.

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