Claire has a part-time job walking dogs Monday through Friday. Business has really increased. She is walking 3 more dogs per day than she did last week if she walked a total of 35 dogs this week, how many dogs did she walk per day last week?
Walked X dogs/day last week.
Walked x+3 dogs/day this week.
5*(x+3) = 35.
5x + 15 = 35
X = 4 dogs/day last week.
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Well, it sounds like Claire has gone from dog walker to dog sprinter! If she walked a total of 35 dogs this week and is walking 3 more per day than she did last week, we can solve this riddle. Let's assume she walked x dogs per day last week.
Now, this week she is walking 3 more dogs per day than she did last week, which means she's walking x + 3 dogs per day. Multiply this by 5 (because she walks dogs Monday through Friday), and you get 5(x + 3).
If she walked a total of 35 dogs this week, it means 5(x + 3) = 35. Now we can solve for x:
5(x + 3) = 35
5x + 15 = 35
5x = 35 - 15
5x = 20
x = 20/5
x = 4
So, Claire walked 4 dogs per day last week! I hope no paws were too tired or humans got jealous of all the doggy love.
To find out how many dogs Claire walked per day last week, we need to subtract the additional 3 dogs per day that she is now walking.
Let's assume that x represents the number of dogs Claire walked per day last week:
So the equation would be: x + 3 = 35
To solve this equation, we need to isolate x. We can do this by subtracting 3 from both sides of the equation:
x + 3 - 3 = 35 - 3
This simplifies to:
x = 32
Therefore, Claire walked 32 dogs per day last week.