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. 1 points

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4 months ago

To find out how long it would take Anita and Chao working together to clean a typical pool, we need to find their combined work rate.

Anita's work rate is 1 pool/8 hours = 1/8 pool per hour
Chao's work rate is 1 pool/6 hours = 1/6 pool per hour

Combined work rate is (1/8 + 1/6) = (3/24 + 4/24) = 7/24 pool per hour

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

Therefore, it would take Anita and Chao working together approximately 3 hours and 25 minutes to clean a typical pool.