Question

6. The Grand Theater has 13,451 seats. If 15,340 people need to be seated in the theater for a music concert, write and solve

an equation to find the number of seats that need to be added to the theater to accommodate all the people.

Answer 1

Hey There!

To find how many seats are needed to be added, you need to subtract 15,340 by 13,451. You need to find the difference between the seats you need and the seats you have. So...

15,340-13,451= 1,889

You need to add 1,889 more seats.

Hope This helped!

Godspeed,

SongBird

Answer 2

The required equation is 13451 + x = 15340,

1,889 seats are needed.

Explanation:

Given,

Original number of seats = 13,451,

Also, the number of people who needed to be seated = 15,340,

Let x seats were added,

So, the new number of seats = 13451 + x

Thus, 15,340 will get the seat,

If total seats = 15340

⇒ 13451 + x = 15340

Which is the required equation,

Subtract 13451 on both sides,

We get,

x = 1889

Hence, 1889 seats are needed to accommodate all the people.