document.write( "Question 1044061: Mike can repaint a dog house three times faster than miguel. If they work together, it will take them 4 days to complete the job. How long would it take for mike to do the repainting alone? \n" ); document.write( "

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Put all the information into the form of a table.\r
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document.write( "PERSON             RATE as JOB/DAYS\r\n" );
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document.write( "MIKE                 \r\n" );
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document.write( "MIGUEL               \r\n" );
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document.write( "BOTH TOGETHER        \r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The \"BOTH\" rate is the sum of their individual rates.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "The choice made for the variable, x, was for the time for Miguel to to ONE whole repaint job by himself. According to given description, Mike's rate would be three times that of Miguel, so $\"3%2A%281%2Fx%29=3%2Fx\"$ .\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Solve the equation, $\"3%2Fx%2B1%2Fx=1%2F4\"$ . \n" ); document.write( "

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