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Question 54·Hard·Probability and Conditional Probability

A company uses three high-volume printers—X, Y, and Z—for all of its print jobs. The percentage of the company’s total pages printed by each printer and the percentage of those pages that experience a paper jam are shown below.

PrinterPercentage of all pages printedPercentage of pages from that printer that jam
X40%2%
Y35%3%
Z25%5%

A page is selected at random from all pages that jammed during printing. What is the probability that this jammed page was printed by printer Z?