Bart and Lisa are both optimizing consumers in the market for shirts and hats, where they pay $100 for a shirt and $50 for a hat. Bart buys 8 shirts and 4 hats, while Lisa buys 6 shirts and 12 hats. From this information, ignoring the minus sign, we can infer that Bart's marginal rate of substiution is _________ hats per shirt, while Lisa's is __________ hat's per shirt

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