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Box A contains 2 quarters, box B contains 1 quarter and 1 dime. A box is...

Box A contains 2 quarters, box B contains 1 quarter and 1 dime. A box is picked at random. From this box a coin is picked at random and it is a quarter. What is the probabilitythat the box picked was box B?

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TOPIC:Application of the Bayes' theorem.

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