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Three boxes of the same appearance have the following proportions of black and white balls : Box-I -5 black and 3 white, Box-II-6 black and 2 white. Box-III-3 black and 5 white. One of the box is selected at random and one ball is drawn randomly from it. Given that the ball is black, find the probability that it came from Box-III.

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