A pump started filling an empty pool with water and continued at a constant rate until the pool was full. At noon the pool was \
small \frac{1}{3} full, and \small 1\frac{1}{4} hours later it was \small \frac{3}{4} full. What was the total number of hours that it took the pump to fill the pool?
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