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Coloured balls are distributed in four boxes as shown in the following table:

Box	Colour
Box	Black	White	Red	Blue
$I$ $II$ $III$ $IV$	$3$ $2$ $1$ $4$	$4$ $2$ $2$ $3$	$5$ $2$ $3$ $1$	$6$ $2$ $1$ $5$

A box is selected at random and then a ball is randomly drawn from the selected box. The colour of the ball is black, what is the probability that ball drawn is from the box $III.$

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Answer

Let $A, E_1, E_2, E_3$ and $E_4$ denote the events that the ball is black, box $I$ selected, box $II$ selected, box $III$ is selected and box $IV$ is selected respectively.
$\therefore\ \text{P}(\text{E}_1)=\frac{1}{4}$
$\text{P}(\text{E}_2)=\frac{1}{4}$
$\text{P}(\text{E}_3)=\frac{1}{4}$
$\text{P}(\text{E}_3)=\frac{1}{4}$
Now,
$\text{P}\Big(\frac{\text{A}}{\text{E}_1}\Big)=\frac{3}{18}$
$\text{P}\Big(\frac{\text{A}}{\text{E}_2}\Big)=\frac{2}{8}$
$\text{P}\Big(\frac{\text{A}}{\text{E}_3}\Big)=\frac{1}{7}$
$\text{P}\Big(\frac{\text{A}}{\text{E}_4}\Big)=\frac{4}{13}$
Using Bayes' theorem, we get
Required probability $\text{P}\Big(\frac{\text{E}_3}{\text{A}}\Big)=\frac{\text{P}(\text{E}_1)\text{P}\Big(\frac{\text{A}}{\text{E}_1}\Big)}{\text{P}(\text{E}_1)\text{P}\Big(\frac{\text{A}}{\text{E}_1}\Big)+\text{P}(\text{E}_2)\text{P}\Big(\frac{\text{A}}{\text{E}_2}\Big)}$
$=\frac{\frac{1}{4}\times\frac{1}{7}}{\frac{1}{4}\times\frac{3}{18}+\frac{1}{4}\times\frac{2}{8}+\frac{1}{4}\times\frac{1}{7}+\frac{1}{4}\times\frac{4}{13}}$
$=\frac{\frac{1}{7}}{\frac{1}{6}+\frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{7}+\frac{1}{13}}=\frac{156}{947}$

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