Answer 1

Let's refresh the question:

Four Minecraft friends are crafting diamond swords. Each diamond sword takes 2 diamond shards and 1 wooden stick. They make 24 swords in total. 

(a) How many swords did each one make? [Assume they are all equally fast at building swords]

(b) How many total resources did they use in total?

Here is the answer:

(a) 

Expression: 24 : 4 
Answer: 6

Note: We use Russian notation for division, which uses the symbol ":".

(b) 

Expression: (1 + 2) • 24

Note: We use the Russian notation for multiplication, which uses the symbol "•".