SOLUTION: box 1 contains 30 red balls and 70 white balls, box 2 contains 50 red balls and 50 white balls , box 3 contains 75 red balls and 25 red balls the three boxes are all emptied into a
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Question 1195462: box 1 contains 30 red balls and 70 white balls, box 2 contains 50 red balls and 50 white balls , box 3 contains 75 red balls and 25 red balls the three boxes are all emptied into a large box and a ball is selected at random .if the selected ball is red what is the probability that it came from box 2? Answer by ikleyn(52770) (Show Source):
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box 1 contains 30 red balls and 70 white balls,
box 2 contains 50 red balls and 50 white balls ,
box 3 contains 75 red balls and 25 red balls
the three boxes are all emptied into a large box and a ball is selected at random .
if the selected ball is red what is the probability that it came from box 2?
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In all, there are 30+50+75 = 155 red balls in the large box.
Of them, 50 red balls came from box 2.
Therefore, if the selected ball is red, the probability that it came from box 2 is
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