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Federico and Giulia are two students who majored in foreign languages and who have recentlybeen hired by a company that translates documents. Each of them can spend their daystranslating documents from English to Italian or Spanish. If Federico spends all his daytranslating documents to Italian with no Spanish, he can translate 10 documents, and ifhe spends all his day translating documents to Spanish with no Italian, he can translate 8documents. If Giulia spends all her day translating documents to Italian with no Spanish, shecan translate 8 documents, and if she spends all her day translating documents to Spanishwith no Italian, she can translate 20 documents.The company requires its workers to translate 4 documents to Italian and 6 documents to Spanish in a day. Is this feasible for Federico? How about Giulia?

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Federico and Giulia are two students who majored in foreign languages and who have recently been hired by a company that translates documents. Each of them can spend their days translating documents from English to Italian or Spanish. If Federico spends all his day translating documents to Italian with no Spanish, he can translate 10 documents, and if he spends all his day translating documents to Spanish with no Italian, he can translate 8 documents. If Giulia spends all her day translating documents to Italian with no Spanish, she can translate 8 documents, and if she spends all her day translating documents to Spanish with no Italian, she can translate 20 documents.The company requires its workers to translate 4 documents to Italian and 6 documents to Spanish in a day. Is this feasible for Federico? How about Giulia?

Federico

1 day=  10 Italian  documents no Spanish

1 day= 8 Spanish documents no Italian

Giulia

1 day= 8 Italian documents no Spanish

1 day= 20 Spanish documents no Italian

It is feasible for both Federico and Giulia, it would only reduce the level of increase in translating another language

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