A Company Has 2 Machines That Produce Widgets

question 105

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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