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Telephone poles, spaced 100 feet apart, line the road on which Jesse lives. If Jesse runs from the first pole to the seventh pole, how many feet does he run? Draw a picture that illustrates the problem. ​

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Answer:

She would have ran 700 feet.

Explanation:

If there are many many poles, and she runs across 7 of them, that would be the number of poles multiplied with the distance: 7 x 100 = 700.

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