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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. Given that the ball is black, find the probability that it came from Box III.

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