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document.write( "If 2 workers take 4 hours to process them, then 1 worker would take twice as \r\n" );
document.write( "long, or 8 hours.  Therefore it would take 5 workers only one-fifth as long,\r\n" );
document.write( "and one-fifth of 8 is 8/5 or 1 3/5 hours or 1 hour and 36 minutes.\r\n" );
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document.write( "If 2 workers take 4 hours to process them, then 10 workers could do that\r\n" );
document.write( "in one-fifth the time or 4/5 of an hour, and only 5 workers would take twice\r\n" );
document.write( "that long, or 8/5 or 1 3/5 hours or 1 hour and 36 minutes.\r\n" );
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