Candies in a Bowl

You will need to think in fractions to solve this one.

There are 20 candies in a bowl.

Half of them are chocolate.

One fourth of the candies are peppermint.

The rest of them are lemon.

How many candies are chocolate? Peppermint? Lemon?

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