In a strange town, there are n pairs of parents without any child, where n is a very large even number. The town is strange. When a daughter is born, they will stop making another baby. But when a son is born, they will make another baby. They will repeat it until a daughter is born.
Now the n pairs of parents start to make their babies. After few years, all of the n pairs of parents have their own daughters. Given that
P(a son is born) = P(a daughter is born)= ,
Find the value of , where a is the total number of sons of the n pairs of parents, b is the total number of daughters of the n pairs of parents.
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