Jill buys 4 tickets to a concert. Each ticket costs $15.80. How much do all the tickets cost in total?
1 Answer
The total cost of all the tickets is $63.20.
Explanation:
There are two really quick ways to go about solving this problem, one involves addition, the other involves multiplication. Without further ado:
The problem says that each ticket costs $15.80, this means that if Jill has 1 ticket she paid $15.80. If Jill pays for 2 tickets then she's paid $15.80 twice, which means to find out how much Jill paid for the 2 tickets we can either use addition
Addition
or:
Multiplication
Now we know that the price of 2 tickets is
Addition
or:
Multiplication
This means that 4 tickets cost Jill
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I find it easier to break things into smaller chunks when doing math (it makes things easier), which is what I did above, however what I did above is the same as:
Addition
or:
Multiplication
I hope this helps!