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A committee of 4 students is selected at random from a grourp consisting of 8 boys and 4 girls. Given that there is at least one girl in the committee, calculate the probability that there are exactly 2 girls in the committee.

A

`(7)/(99)`

B

`(13)/(99)`

C

`(14)/(99)`

D

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