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Scott spends 16 minutes in the pool treading water during swim practice. This is 1/3 of his practice time. How many total minutes is Scott's swim practice?

Scott spends 16 minutes in the pool treading water during swim practice. This is 1/3 of-example-1
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We know that 16 minutes is only 1/3 of the total time he was at swim practice. The act of the divided the total number of minutes by three was a division problem. So, to reverse that, we have to do the opposite of division, which is multiplication.

16 x 3 = 48 minutes total.

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