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TWO tailors, Aisha and Debbie, sit down to do some embroidery. Alsha can embroider 4 shirtsper hour, and Debbie can get through 6 shirts per hour. In addition, the tailors had previouslyfinished some shirts. Aisha has already completed 20 shirts, and Debbie has completed 10shirts. Aisha and Debbie decide to take a break when they have finished the same totalnumber of shirts. How long will that take?Write a system of equations, graph them, and type the solution

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For the information given in the statement you have


\begin{gathered} t=4h+20\Rightarrow\text{ shirts embroidered by Aisha} \\ t=6h+10\Rightarrow\text{ shirts embroidered by Debbie} \end{gathered}

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