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A toy manufacturer buys ball bearings from three different suppliers-50% of her total order comes from supplier 1, 30% from supplier 2, and the rest from supplier 3. Past experience has shown that the quality-control standards of the three suppliers are not all the same. Two percent of the ball bearings produced by supplier 1 are defective, while suppliers 2 and 3 produce defective bearings 3% and 4% of the time, respectively. What proportion of the ball bearings in the toy manufacturer’s inventory are defective?
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1 of 3Let
=Supplier 1
=Supplier 2
=Supplier 3
=defective
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