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A school auditorium has 300 seats. If 89 people have tickets for the school play, how many people can attend? Let p be a number of people who can attend: Help PLEASE

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Answer:

300-89 would equal your equasion which would be 211

Explanation:

But there are 2 ways to think of it becaue=se if u used the people in the school to play on the stage there are still 300 seats left or your teacher would think of it as being 300-89=211 so this word problem has 2 answers!

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