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A husband and wife appear in an interview for two vacancies for the same post. The probability of husbands selection is 1/7 and that of wifes selection is 1/5. What is the probability that Both of them will be selected? Only one of them will be selected? None of them will selected?

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(i) `(1)/(35)` (ii) `(2)/(7)` (iii) `(11)/(35)` (iv) `(24)/(35)`.
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