Consider three boxes containing a brand of light bulbs. Box I contains 6 bulbs of which 2 are defective, Box 2 has 1 defective and 3 functional bulbs and Box 3 contains 3 defective and 4 functional bulbs. A box is selected at random and a bulb drawn from it at random is found to be defective. Find the probability that the box selected was Box 2

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Consider three boxes containing a brand of light bulbs. Box I contains 6 bulbs
of which 2 are defective, Box 2 has 1 defective and 3 functional bulbs and Box 3 contains 3 defective and 4 functional bulbs. A box is selected at random and a bulb
drawn from it at random is found to be defective. Find the probability that the box
selected was Box 2

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