Phoebe has $20$ orange-flavour candies, which is $80\%$ of the total number of candies she has,

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Phoebe has $20$ orange-flavour candies, which is $80\%$ of the total number of candies she has, and the rest are peach-flavour candies. Rachel has in total $50$ candies, of which $30\%$ are orange-flavour candies and the rest are peach-flavour candies. Rachel gives some of her candies to Phoebe such that Rachel has now $40\%$ of orange-flavour candies and Phoebe has now $50\%$ of orange-flavour candies. Find the number of peach-flavour candies Phoebe originally has, the number of orange-flavour and peach-flavour candies Rachel originally has, the number of candies that Rachel gives to Phoebe.

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(i) $5$ peach-flavour candies (ii) $15$ orange-flavour and $35$ peach-flavour candies (iii) $25$ candies in total: $5$ orange-flavour and $20$ peach-flavour

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