You are remodeling your kitchen. you've contacted two tiling companies who gladly told you how long it took their workers to tile a floor of a similar size. jim completed half the floor in 7 hours. pete completed the other half of the floor in 6 hours. if pete can lay 15 more tiles per hour than jim, what equation would you use to find the rate that jim can lay tiles? let x represent jim's rate.

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