SOLUTION: mike can do a job alone in 1 hour less than homer, together they work 3 hours, homer goes home, mike works an additional 4 hours, how long would it take homer to do the job by hims

Question 944412: mike can do a job alone in 1 hour less than homer, together they work 3 hours, homer goes home, mike works an additional 4 hours, how long would it take homer to do the job by himself.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Uniform Rates, RT=J using J for amount of job.

RATES
Mike,
Homer,
x, how much time for Homer to do 1 job.

The description gives two terms for rate times time to be summed.
;
Deriving that equation is most important for the solution process.
Solve for x.
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