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In a committee of 25 members, each member is proficient either in Mathematics or in Statistics or in both. If 19 of these are proficient in Mathematics, 16 in statistics, find the probability that a person selected from the committee is proficient in both.

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0.4

B

0.8

C

1.9

D

0.2

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