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[SIMPLIFY]

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In Mr. Jacob's music class, 18 of the 27 students participated in the annual school musical. Mr. Jacob's ratio of participating to not participating students is applied to Mr. Steve's class for the regional music competition. If Mr. Steve has 45 students in total, how many students from Mr. Steve's class are expected to participate based on the given ratio?

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