单选题 On a certain French-American committee, of the members are men, and of the men are Americans. If of the committee members are French, what fraction of the members are American women?
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【正确答案】 1、[*]    
【答案解析】Use TACTIC 3. The LCM of all the denominators is 120, so assume that the committee has 120 members. Then there are[*] men and 40 women. Of the 80 men 30[*] are American. Since there are 72[*] French members, there are 120 - 72 = 48 Americans, of whom 30 are men, so the other 18 are women. Finally, the fraction of American women is[*] This is illustrated in the Venn diagram below. [*]