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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "If 2 teams work together they can finish a job in 8 days. The rate of work of the first team is 5/8 of the rate of the second team. How many days each team needs to complete this job working alone.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "Since the rate of the first team is 5/8 the rate of the second team, when working together the first team does 5/13 of the work and the second team does 8/13 of the work.

\n" ); document.write( "So when the two teams working together do the job in 8 days, the first team does 5/13 of the work in those 8 days. So the number of days they would take to do the whole job alone is

\n" ); document.write( "\"8%2F%285%2F13%29+=+8%2A%2813%2F5%29+=+104%2F5+=+20.8\"

\n" ); document.write( "Similarly, since the second team does 8/13 of the work in those 8 days, the number of days they would take to do the job alone is

\n" ); document.write( "\"8%2F%288%2F13%29+=+8%2A%2813%2F8%29+=+13\"

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\n" ); document.write( "The first team would take 20.8 days to do the job alone.
\n" ); document.write( "The second team would take 13 days to do the job alone.

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