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Susan has a bag of sweets containing 7 chocolates and 5 toffees. Ahmad has a bag of sweets containing 3 chocolates, 4 toffees and 2 boiled sweets. A sweet is taken at random from Susan’s bag and put in Ahmad’s bag. A sweet is then taken at random from Ahmad’s bag.

(i) Find the probability that the two sweets taken are a toffee from Susan’s bag and a boiled sweet from Ahmad’s bag.

(ii) Given that the sweet taken from Ahmad’s bag is a chocolate, find the probability that the sweet taken from Susan’s bag was also a chocolate.

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