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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


1 - ((5)/(12) *(4)/(11)) = 1 - ( (20)/(132) ) = 1 - (20)/(132) = (132-20)/(132) = (112)/(20) simplified(/4)= (28)/(33)
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\approx 0,84 (84%)
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