Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Problem: at milk factory , each employee working the second shift produced 2 / 3 as many widgets as each employee working the first shift . if the first shift has 3 / 4 as many employees , what fraction of the total widgets did the second shift produce ? 
Options: a ) 8 / 17 , b ) 1 / 2 , c ) 8 / 9 , d ) 9 / 8 , e ) 17 / 8
Output (English): a