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Let A be the event that a student is enrolled in an accounting course, and let S be the event that a student is enrolled in a statistics course. It is known that 30% of all students are enrolled in an accounting course and 40% of all students are enrolled in statistics. Included in these numbers are 15% who are enrolled in both statistics and accounting. A student is randomly selected, and it is found that the student is enrolled in accounting. What is the probability that this student is also enrolled in statistics?

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