At a certain high school, the senior class is twice the size of the junior class. If 7/8 of the seniors and 1/2 of the juniors study Japanese, what fraction of the students in both classes study Japanese?  Choose one
A) 3/4	B) 1/2	C) 1/4	D) 3/8	E) 5/16
Start by deciding on a number of students to represent the number of students in the senior class. For this example I will choose 200 students. That would make the number of students in the junior class 100. Then we can find out how many students are taking Japanese in each grade and add them together. (7/8)*200=175 and   (1/2)*100= 
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50. 175+50=225. There are a total of 300 students in the junior class and senior class combined (100+200=300), and there are 225 total students in Japanese, so 225 students in Japanese / 300 total students equals 3/4 of the students in both classes that study Japanese.   3/4nswer: 3/4
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At a certain high school, the senior class is twice the size of the junior class. If 7/8 of the seniors and 1/2 of the juniors study Japanese, what fraction of the students in both classes study Japanese?