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As a project manager at a construction firm, you need to calculate individual worker efficiency. An experienced concrete finisher can lay a standard concrete slab in 3 hours alone. When paired with a new trainee, they lay the same size slab together in 2 hours. If tt represents the hours it would take the trainee to lay the slab alone, which of the following equations correctly recalls the setup for this work application by equating the sum of their individual hourly rates to their combined hourly rate?

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