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A math class has 7 girls and 5 boys in the seventh grade and 4 girls and 4 boys in the eighth grade. the teacher randomly selects a seventh grader and an eighth grader from the class for a competition. what is the probability that the students she selects are both boys?

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9/20 because there is a total of 20 kids and 9 of them are boys
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