A linguist studies lexical borrowing in a multilingual city. She finds that 30% of Mandarin speakers use Japanese loanwords, 22% of Spanish speakers use Japanese borrowings, and 8% use both. If 5,000 people speak Mandarin and 7,000 speak Spanish, how many use Japanese loanwords in either language?

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