When swimming the 5000 meter freestyle race, a swimmer travels at a steady pace of 68 seconds for each lap. Each lap of the pool is 100 meters. How long will it take for this swimmer to swim the 5000 meters

Well, since the race is a total of 5000m, and each lap is 100m, you would have to divide these two numbers to see how many laps around the pool it would be:

5000/100 = 50

Since his steady pace for a single lap is 68 seconds, you would multiple the number of laps, by the amount of time it would take him:

68*50 = 3,400 seconds

So in total it would take him 3,400 seconds, or 56 minutes 40 seconds.