Odds of identical twins with fraternal triplet?

by Bigcaddy1989
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Odds of identical twins with fraternal triplet?

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The other day during the birth of my 11th generation, Margaret gave birth to triplet boys, making our already cramped household Packed to the rafters! They were just born last night, but I’m beginning to suspect that two of them are identical twins as they have the mother’s skin tone, the third looks more like his father. I was wondering what the actual odds are for this to happen?

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@Bigcaddy1989

 

I did some Googling:

 

Odds of triplets: 1:6,400

Odds of twins: 1:80

 

Maybe the odds of triplets where two are twins is 6,400x80= 1:512,000

 

I'm probably way off; fun though!!!

 

 

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