Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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