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The records of 1,492 high school graduates were examined, and the following information was obtained: 1,072 graduates took biology, and 679 took geometry. If 271 of those who took geometry did not take biology, how many graduates took the following?
a. both classes
b. at least one of the classes
c. biology but not geometry
d. neither class
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