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Workforce Planning: Inverse Variation Equation

In a corporate IT department, the time (yy) in hours required to process a batch of security tickets varies inversely with the number of IT specialists (xx) assigned. If it takes 20 hours when 8 specialists are working, identify the general inverse variation formula and determine the specific equation that relates xx and yy.

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