Question

gina organized her art projects into boxes. she put 6 drawings and p paintings in each box. after filling 3 boxes, she used a total of 36 art projects. what does the unknown value, p, represent in this problem? 36 three boxes each labeled p + 6 options: the total number of paintings gina has, the total number of art projects gina has, the number of paintings in each box, the number of drawings in each box

Explanation:

The problem states each box has 6 drawings and $p$ paintings, so $p+6$ is the total items per box. There are 3 boxes with a total of 36 art projects, so $3(p+6)=36$. The variable $p$ is defined as the number of paintings in each box, which matches one of the options.

Answer:

The number of paintings in each box