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A man starts a job, working at the rate of 1 unit a day. After each day, another man joins the working group. The man who joins on the xth day of the job works until the job is completed, at x units per day.The job is completed in 4 days. The time the man who started the work would have taken to complete the job alone is (in days) :

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