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A company has two 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 three 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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