Arithmetic problems in WolframAlpha

Questions
1

I have asked WolframAlpha to give a solution for the following query

The total of apples in six boxes of 10 apples each.

It seems that wolfram alpha cannot transform this ptroblem into the simple operation 6 times 10. What would a suitable quastion format for WolframAlpha to solve it?

Jesús

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Hi. There are some examples of mathematical word problems here:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/MathematicalWordProblems.html

The parser likely will want the question to be written in a format like this. Additionally these seem to be addition problems of one sort or another.