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In a cross country meet, you run at a steady pace of 7 minutes a mile. If you finish the race in 21 minutes. How long is the race?

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You would change the word problem into an equation. So it would be 21/7.  The answer is 3 minutes.
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3 miles:
21 divided by 7 is 3
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