Remember that X will always be one up or down depending on if there is a - or not (if it is just an x) and one over! Hope this helps
If Nate paints the wall in 4 hours, it means that he can paint 1/4 of the wall every hour.
Similarly, if Jill paints the wall in 7 hours, it means that he can paint 1/7 of the wall in one hour.
So, together, they paint the following fraction of the wall in one hour:
.
At this rate, they need 28/11 hours to paint the whole wall, in fact, after that amount of time they paint

i.e. the whole wall
Answer:
6 – x ft
Step-by-step explanation:
If a 6-foot board is cut in two pieces, both lengths could be anything that add up to 6 feet since the problem did not specify where the board was cut.
So if one piece is x feet long, the other must be 6 - x feet long because:
x + (6 – x) = 6