Question: A bag of flour is divided into 8 portions of 2 kilograms each. How much flour (in kilograms) was in three bags in total, before it was divided into portions?
Solve it. 
Answer: 
A bag of flour has 8 x 2 = 16 kilograms.
So, there are 16 x 3 = 48 kilograms of flour in 3 bags.