4 th grade math problems

Question

An adult ticket to the circus and a child's ticket to the circus cost $12 total . The adult ticket cost two times as much as the child's ticket how much does one adult ticket cost

Answer 1

Try to break 12 into two parts where one part is twice the size of the other part.  What two numbers add to give you 12 but one is twice the size of the other?

 

1 and 11?

 

2 and 10?

 

3 and 9?

 

4 and 8?

 

5 and 7?

 

6 and 6?