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plant a produced 8000 fewer panels than plan b did. Two percent of the panels from plant a and three percent of the panels from plat b were defective. How many panels did plant a produce. If two plants together produced 640 defective panels.

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let 'x' represent the number of panels produced by plant b, then 'x-8000' represents the number of panels produced by plant a


640 = 0.03x + 0.02(x-8000)

solving for 'x' we have x=16000


16000-8000 = 8000


16,000 panels were produced by plant b

8,000 panels were produced by plant a