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Question 26

In a pack there are only strawberry, lemon, mint and orange sweets. A sweet is taken at random from the pack. The table shows the probabilities that the sweet will be strawberry or will be orange.

FlavorStrawberryLemonMintOrange
Probability0.180.22

The probability that the sweet will be lemon is five times the probability that the sweet will be mint. There are 55 orange sweets in the pack.

Work out the number of lemon sweets in the pack.

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