Question

Claude has a container of paintbrushes and divides the entire carton between 3friends. Each friend gets 6 paintbrushes. How many paintbrushes were in thecontainer?

Answer 1

Since there are 3 friends and each friend gets 6 paintbrushes, multiply 6 times 3 to find the total amount of paintbrushes that were in the container:

`6*3=18`