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There are two small cities, Santa Clara and Santa Rosa. Santa Clara has 20 houses and Santa Rosa has 15 houses. An inspector must randomly choose 5 houses in Santa Clara and 7 houses in Santa Rosa to inspect. How many different ways can this be done?

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Combinations are calculated from given data.

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