Scanning the Pages of a Book

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One scanning device, working at a constant rate, can scan the pages of a particular book in 11 minutes. A second scanning device, working at a constant rate, can scan the same book in 5 minutes. If both scanning devices are used on different copies of the book, one working from the front and one from the back, approximately how many minutes are required to scan the pages of the book?