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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?

A

`12/35`

B

`6/35`

C

`24/35`

D

none

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