A company has two machines that produce widgets. An older machine produces 20% defective widgets, while the new machine produces only 7% defective widgets. In addition, the new machine produces 6 times as many widgets as the older machine does. What is the probability that a randomly chosen widget produced by the company is not defective? (Round your answer to three decimal places. Express your answers as a probability, not a percentage.)
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Let the number of widgets produced by the older machine be x. Then the number of widgets produced by the new machine is 6x. Show more…
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