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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: BoxIII-3 black and 5 white, one of the boxes is selected at random and one ball is drawn randomly from it. What is the probability that the ball is black?

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