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A company just began manufacturing a new high-efficiency model of light bulb. A quality control engineer randomly selects 1500 of these bulbs from the most recent batch produced and tests them to be sure they work. Out of the 1500 tested, 29 would not turn on. Based on these results, what is the probability that a randomly selected bulb of this type from this batch fails (it does not work)?

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