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Anita can clean a typical pool in 8 hours. Chao can clean a typical pool in 6 hours. How long should it take Anita and Chao working together to clean a typical pool? Show all your work. Leave your final answer as an integer or reduced fraction.
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Anita can clean a typical pool in 8 hours. Chao can clean a typical pool in 6 hours. How long should it take Anita and Chao working together to clean a typical pool? Show all your work. Leave your final answer as an integer or reduced fraction.
Please and thank you for the help!
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oobleck
add up the fraction of the job done by each in one hour.
If they can do the job together in x hours, then
1/x = 1/6 + 1/8
Now just find x.
If they can do the job together in x hours, then
1/x = 1/6 + 1/8
Now just find x.
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