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there are 12 sweets in a bag. 7 of the sweets are strawberry flavou. 5 of the sweets are lime flavour. harriet takes 2 sweets at random work out the probability that she takes at least one strawberry sweet.

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Data:

Total flavors = 12
Strawberry flavour = 7
Lemon flavour = 5

[tex]1 - (\frac{5}{12} *\frac{4}{11}) = 1 - ( \frac{20}{132} ) = 1 - \frac{20}{132} = \frac{132-20}{132} = \frac{112}{20} simplified(\div4)= \frac{28}{33}[/tex]
or 
[tex]\approx 0,84 [/tex] (84%)

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