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Consider Two Boxes: a and B

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Consider two boxes: A and B. Box A contains 8 Red and 2 Blue marbles. Box B contains 2 Red and 8 Blue Red marbles. Jack tosses a fair die. If the die comes up with the numbers 1 or 2, then he will choose Box A, if it comes up with 3, 4, 5 or 6, then he chooses Box B. Once a box has been chosen, he will reach inside and randomly pick one of the ten marbles in that box. Suppose, Jack has picked a red marble. What is the probability that the red marble came from Box B?


A) 1/3.
B) 1/4.
C) 1/2.
D) 1/5.

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