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Brian has 6 packs of crayons. There are 4 crayons in each pack. He wants to know how many crayons he has in all. Brian says that the expression (2+2)+6 Can be used to find the total number of crayons.
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Brian has 6 packs of crayons. There are 4 crayons in each pack. He wants to know how many crayons he has in all. Brian says that the expression (2+2)+6 Can be used to find the total number of crayons. What is Brian doing wrong?

Brian has 6 packs of crayons. There are 4 crayons in each pack. He wants to know how-example-1
User Aayush Anand
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there are a 4 in each box so you take 4 times 6 to figure out how many crayons you have so your answer would be 24.
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Brian is adding instead of multiplying. If he has 6 packs of crayons which contains 4 packs each then in all he has 6x4 crayons which is 24
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