Homer and mike were replacing the boards on mike's old deck. mike can do the job alone in 1 hour less time than homer. they worked together for 7 hours until homer had to go home. mike finished the job working by himself in an additional 5 hours. how long would it have taken homer to fix the deck himself?

19.65 hours

Step-by-step explanation:

Mike:

Homer:

The each work 7 hours plus Mike works 5 hours alone:

Use quadratic formula to solve for x:

We know that 0.35 cannot be a valid answer since it took at least 12 hours to complete the job.

So, Homer can get 1 job done in 19.65 hours.

step-by-step explanation:

no, her answer is not correct.   we square the lengths of all sides and then determine whether the pythagorean theorem holds here:

9² + 15² = 306.   this is not equal to the square of the longest side ( that square being 395.   answer c is correct.

1=b 2=c 16=c can i get brainliest