Basket I contains 30 black and 70 silver balls, basket Il contains 50 black and 50 silverballs, and basket IIl contains 75 black and 25 silver balls. The three baskets are allemptied into a large basket, and a ball is selected at random. If the selected ball isblack, what is the probability that it çame from basket III? Express your answer inthree decimal places.

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