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A math class has girls and boys in the seventh grade and girls and 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 girls? Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form

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I think the answer is 1/3 since on possible way is a boy to boy, boy to girl, and gurl to girl. So there are 3 ways and one of them has a chance of being a girl and a girl. So the answer would be 1/3
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