18pts note: enter your answer and show all the steps that you use to solve this problem in the space provided. 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.

3 3/7 hours.

Step-by-step explanation:

We work in  rates / hour:

Anita  does 1/8 of the pool in 1 hour and Chao does 1/6 in an hour.

Let x be the time they would clean the pool working together,  then we have:

1/8 + 1/6 = 1/x

3/24 + 4/24 = 1/x

7/24 = 1/x

7x= 24

x = 24/7 hours.

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