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please help me!!!

a women carries a sex linked lethal gene that causes spontaneous abortions. she has six childrens. how many of her children would you expect to be boys?
 
Assuming the woman is XdX and her husband is XY, any male offspring would be XY since XdY is fatal. The girls would be XX or XdX (both normal). This means that there is a 2:1 ratio of girls to boys in their litter of children instead of the normal 1:1 expected ratio, so I'd guess that there are 4 girls, 2 boys.
 
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