Two factory plants are making TV panels. Yesterday, Plant A 8000 produced panels. Five percent of the panels from Plant A and 2% of the panels from Plant B were defective. How many panels did Plant B produce, if the overall percentage of defective panels from the two plants was 4% ?

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Two factory plants are making TV panels. Yesterday, Plant A 8000 produced  panels. Five percent of the panels from Plant A and 2% of the panels from Plant B were defective. How many panels did Plant B produce, if the overall percentage of defective panels from the two plants was 4% ?

mathmale · Answer

That's better:  you've typed in the numeric information.
Plant A produced 8000 panels.
We don't know how many panels Plant B produced, so we represent that quantity by ' x '.

How many defective panels did Plant A produce?
How many defective panels did Plant B produce?

Write your answers symbolically if you don't have some numeric value that you need.

anonymous · Answer

I don't understand it

mathmale · Answer

I'm breaking the problem down into parts to make it easier for you to understand the steps involved in the solution.

Please indicate what you DO understand.  Then we can move forward.

mathmale · Answer

Plant A produced 8000 panels, of which 5% were defective.  How may were defective?