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White Tiger Electronics produces CD players using an automated assembly line process. The standard cost of CD players is $$149$ per unit $($labor$,$ $$27$; materials, $$68$; and overhead, $$54).$ The sales price is $$275$ per unit.

a$.$ To achieve a $12$ percent multifactor productivity improvement by reducing materials costs only, one needs to reduce the materials cost by percent. $($Enter your response as a percent rounded to two decimal places.$)$