Active dry yeast and bread machine yeast were not available in stores during the coronavirus pandemic. Fleischmann's attempted to staff two shifts to produce enough active dry yeast to put some yeast back on the market. If the first shift produced 2 4/5 times as many yeast packets as the second shift, and 4,940 packets of yeast were produced during the month, how many packets of yeast were produced on each shift?

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