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Atomic fireballs come in packages of 6 janet ate 21 atomic fireballs. how many whole boxes did she est and how many atomic fireballs does she have left?

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Answer: 3 packages and 3 leftover

Explanation:
We will subtract 6 (in a package) from 21 (how many she ate) to find out how many packages she ate and how many she has left.

21 - 6 - 6 - 6 = 3

It took 6 three times (18) so she ate three packages and she has 3 leftover.

We can also write an equation to represent this, where x is the number of packages
21 - (6x) = 3
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