mrs. Lincoln has a bucket full of pencils that she would like to divide up equally to her 28 students if each student got three pencils how many did she start with

The way you should solve this problem if by multiplying the number of students by the number of pencils she gave to each of her students. The equation would look like this. 28 students x 3 pencils each = 84 because 28 + 28 + 28 is also 60 + 24 which would equal 84.

You have to multiply 28 by 3 which gives you 84