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Worker A takes 8 hours to do a job. Worker B takes 10 hours to do a job. How long should it take both A and B, working together to do same job.

  • \begin{aligned} \frac{4}{9} \end{aligned}
  • \begin{aligned} 2\frac{4}{9} \end{aligned}
  • \begin{aligned} 3\frac{4}{9} \end{aligned}
  • \begin{aligned} 4\frac{4}{9} \end{aligned}
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  • \begin{aligned} \frac{4}{9} \end{aligned}
  • \begin{aligned} 2\frac{4}{9} \end{aligned}
  • \begin{aligned} 3\frac{4}{9} \end{aligned}
  • \begin{aligned} 4\frac{4}{9} \end{aligned}

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