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span >25 defective pens are accidentally mixed with 130 good ones. It is not possible to just look at a pen and tell whether or not it is defective. One pen is taken out at random from this lot. Determine the probability that the pen is taken out is a good one.

A 0.865

B 0.870

C 0.833

D 0.838

E None of these

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