Suppose that colored balls are distributed in three indistinguishable boxes as follow: A box is selected at random from which a ball is drawn at random a. Find the probability that the ball is blue. b. Given the ball is green what is the probability that box C was selected?

Suppose that colored balls are distributed in three indistinguishable boxes as follow: A box is selected at random from which a ball is drawn at random a. Find the probability that the ball is blue. b. Given the ball is green what is the probability that box C was selected?

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Suppose that colored balls are distributed in three indistinguishable boxes as follow: A box is selected at random from which a ball is drawn at random

a. Find the probability that the ball is blue.

b. Given the ball is green what is the probability that box C was selected?

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