division by 7 efficiently

Last month I appeared for an interview with EA sports and they asked
me this question.

How would you divide a number by 7 without using division operator ?

I did by doing a subtraction and keeping a counter that kept a tab on
how many times I subtracted.

Later, the EA sport guy told me that of course there are can be better
technique by using bit operator.

Since 7 has a binary representation 111, my guess is that a left shift
operation of 3 bits should give the answer, but I couldn't get it to
work.

Any comments ?

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