Pescatarians vs libertarians maths puzzle

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The puzzle goes something like this

In the US every 13th libertarian is a pescatarian and every 11th pescatarian is a libertarian. Are there more libertarians or pescatarians?

The obvious answer seems incorrect to me, yet I don’t know how to go about solving this correctly.

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