Wake County has a special emergency rescue team. The team is practicing rescuing dummies from a smokefilled building. The first time, the team took $180$ seconds $(3$ minutes$).$ The second time, it took $144$ seconds $(2\mathrm{.}4$ minutes$).$

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a$.$ The estimated learning rate is $80\%.($Enter your response as a whole number.$)$

b$.$ Suppose that the team's learning rate for the rescue exercise is $85\%.$

The team needs to repeat the exercise times until its time is less than $108$ seconds. $($Enter your response as a whole number.$)$