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Question 10
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There are n n\,n sweets in a jar.

3 of the sweets are yellow and the rest are pink.

Leo takes a sweet from the jar at random and eats it. He then takes another sweet at random from the jar.

The probability that Leo takes two pink sweets is 715\displaystyle \frac{7}{15}157​

a.

Show that 4n2−49n+90=04n^2 - 49n + 90 = 04n2−49n+90=0

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b.

Find the value of nnn.

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