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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 = 9:4:x flavoured sweets flavoured sweets flavoured sweets Cormac is going to take at random a sweet from the bag. The probability that he takes a lime flavoured sweet is $\frac{3}{7}$ 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 = 9:4:x
flavoured sweets flavoured sweets flavoured sweets
Cormac is going to take at random a sweet from the bag.
The probability that he takes a lime flavoured sweet is $\frac{3}{7}$
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 = 9:4:x
flavoured sweets flavoured sweets flavoured sweets
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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Elementary and Intermediate Algebra

Alan S. Tussy, R. David Gustafson 5th Edition

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Cornac has some sweets in a bag. The sweets are lime flavored, strawberry flavored, and orange flavored. In the bag, there are a certain number of lime flavored sweets, a certain number of strawberry flavored sweets, and a certain number of orange flavored sweets. Cornac is going to take a random sweet from the bag. The probability that he takes a lime flavored sweet is unknown. Work out the value of x.