READ THE QUESTION PROPERLY PLEASE!

A couple of years ago, when my daughter was 4 years oldd, she provided the following answer to one of her questions in her workbook.

"There are 6 apples and 3 baskets. How many apples go in each basket so it is fair?"

Her answer was: "1 apple to the 1st basket, 2 apples to the 2nd basket, and 3 apples to the 3rd basket."

I did not ask for her reasoning. But a couple of days later, I gave her four cookies and told her to share them with her brother, who was 2 years old then. I observed that she gave him two and kept two. How would you explain the difference between her response to the question and her actual behavior?.

AND ANSWER WITHOUT TAUTOLOGY properly please!