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In a tape recorder factory, three machines A, B and C produced 50%, 30% and 20% of total production. The percentage of the defective output of these machines are 3%, 4% and 5% respectively. A tape recorder is selected randomly and found to be defective, find the probability that it is produced by machine A.

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