A Company Has 2 Machines That Produce Widgets

question 56

Multiple Choice

A company has 2 machines that produce widgets.An older machine produces 23% defective
Widgets, while the new machine produces only 8% defective widgets.In addition, the new
Machine produces 3 times as many widgets as the older machine does.What is the probability
That a randomly chosen widget produced by the company is defective?

• A) 0.078
• B) 0.1175
• C) 0.156
• D) 0.310

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