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Find the probability of a dart landing in one of three plane figures in a rectangular board.

On a 12 by 20 rectangular board, three plane figures are drawn:  a square 6 on a side , a circle with radius 4 and an equilateral triangle that is 8 on a side.  If a dart is thrown that does hit the large rectangle what is the probabillity that it hits inside one of the three plane figures?  (Landing on the side of a figure counts as being in the figure). Leave as a percent.


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