an art teacher had 6 boxes of paintbrushes. each box contained 12 brushes. the teacher put the brushes into 8 jars so that each jar contained the same number of brushes. how many jars were there

Answer 1

Assuming you mean how many brushes are in each jar (it says there are 8 jars) this is a word problem to help you use multiplication and division. First, you need to find the total number of brushes. There are 12 brushes in each box and 6 boxes of brushes. So there is 6*12 =72 brushes total. These 72 brushes then need to be separated (divided) into 8 jars. Which means we use 72/8 = 9 brushes in each jar.