Tina uses tablespoon of butter to make an apricot
loaf. How many loaves can she make with 4
tablespoons of butter?

1 loaf = 1 tb butter

This is a multiplication problem

[tb of butter to make a loaf] x [number of loaves]

= 1 x 4

= 4

1 multiplied by any number is that other number.

quick tip: breaking up problems by sentence usually helps to make word problems easier to digest. look for numbers and their associations, and then look at how the word problem describes each object's relationship.