Question

Mr. Lowe is setting up his room for art class. He has 6 boxes of crayons with 24 crayons each, 3 packages of pencils with 20 pencils each, and 9 packages of paint brushes with 15 brushes each. What is the difference between the total number of crayons and the total number of paint brushes?

Answer 1

The difference between the crayons and the paintbrush the total. I just see which one is greater

Answer 2

so first we need to find the total number of crayons

to do that we're going to multiply 6 by 24 cause each box has 24 crayons

24 × 6 = 144

so the answer of total number of crayons is 144 crayons

next we're going to find the total number of paint brushes

to do that we're going to multiply 9 by 15 cause each package has 15 paint brushes

9 × 15 = 135

so the answer of total number of paint brushes is 135 crayons

finally we're going to calculate the difference

so its 144 crayons subtracted by 135 paint brushes

144 - 135 = 9

so the difference of total number of crayons and total number of paint brushes is 9

hope that helped :))