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A factory has two machines A and B. Past record shows that machine A produced 60% of items of output and machine B produced 40% of items. Further, 2% of items, produced by machine A and 1% produced by machine B were defective. All the items are put into a stockpile and then one item is chosen at random from this and this is found to be defective. What is the probability that it was produced by machine B?

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