500 shirts / 3 hours = 166 2/3 shirts per hour.
Divide total shirts by shirts per hour:
1800 / 166 2/3 = 10.8 hours.
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The absolute value of -81 has the same absolute value as that of 81 because they both have the same distance to 0.