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11 Cormac has some sweets in a bag. The sweets are lime flavoured or strawberry flavoured or orange flavoured. In the bag number of lime number of strawberry number of orange flavoured sweets flavoured sweets flavoured sweets =9:4:x Cormac is going to take at random a sweet from the bag. The probability that he takes a lime flavoured sweet is 3/7 Work out the value of x.

11 Cormac has some sweets in a bag. The sweets are lime flavoured or strawberry flavoured or orange flavoured. In the bag number of lime number of strawberry number of orange flavoured sweets flavoured sweets flavoured sweets =9:4:x Cormac is going to take at random a sweet from the bag. The probability that he takes a lime flavoured sweet is 3/7 Work out the value of x.

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11 Cormac has some sweets in a bag. The sweets are lime flavoured or strawberry flavoured or orange flavoured. In the bag number of lime number of strawberry number of orange flavoured sweets flavoured sweets flavoured sweets =9:4:x Cormac is going to take at random a sweet from the bag. The probability that he takes a lime flavoured sweet is 3/7 Work out the value of x.