Question #a5ac3
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The third worker should budget
Explanation:
The three fractions of the three people's workloads should add to 1, which we can write as
so
Since the denominators are different, we need to make them the same by multiplying the numerator and denominator of each fraction. We can do this by finding the lowest common multiple of all the denominators.
The lowest number that 1, 2, 3 and all multiply into is
if we multiply
if we multiply
if we multiply
The values of the fractions have not changed since
then we simply use these new fractions in place of the old ones in the equation
So the third worker should budget