Which is an example of practical pursuit of alchemy

A practical pursuit of alchemy was the development of metallurgy practices. As alchemists always tried to turn various metals into other things, metalworking techniques were developed even though their experiments were often unsuccessful.

So what you would do is go through and add 3 teaspoons(tsp) 6 times because of the 6 tablespoons(tbsp). which will give you an answer of 18. another way is to multiply 3x6=18.