Problema Solution

Every time Stephen walks the dog he gets 30 minutes to play video or computer games. When he does not take the dog out on time he gets a mess to clean up and lose an hour of video or computer game time. This week he has walked the dog on time 8 times more than he did not walk the dog on time. in total he has accumulated 3 hours of video or computer game time. How many times has Stephen not walked the dog on time?

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let 'x' be the number of times that Stephen did not walk the dog


he has walked the dog on time 8 times more than he did not walk the dog on time: 8x


8x*0.5 - x*1 = 3


by solving we find


x = 1


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Stephen did not walk the dog on time just 1 time.