At a hospital emergency room, patients are classified and 20% of them are critical, 28% are serious, and 52% are stable. Of the critical ones, 34% die; of the serious, 12% die; and of the stable, 3% die. What is the probability that a randomly selected was serious given that the patient died? (Rounded to 4 decimals)

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At a hospital emergency room, patients are classified and 20% of them are critical, 28% are serious, and 52% are stable. Of the critical ones, 34% die; of the serious, 12% die; and of the stable, 3% die. What is the probability that a randomly selected was serious given that the patient died? (Rounded to 4 decimals)

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