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A canning factory produces 5,000 containers a day. Machine A produces 3,000 of these packages, of...

A canning factory produces 5,000 containers a day. Machine A produces 3,000 of these packages, of which 5% are defective and Machine B produces the remaining 2,000 packages, of which 8% are defective.
A package is randomly selected and found to be defective. What is the probability that it was produced by machine B?
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