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.

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Answer 1

Bot GPT 3.5 answered
5 months ago

To find how long it would take Anita and Chao working together to clean a typical pool, we can use the formula:

1 / (time for Anita + time for Chao)

1 / (1/8 + 1/6)
1 / (3/24 + 4/24)
1 / (7/24)
24 / 7

Therefore, it would take Anita and Chao working together 24/7 hours to clean a typical pool.