Question

A rectangular auditorium seats 936 people. The number of seats in each row exceeds the number of rows by 10. Find the number of seats in each row.

Answer 1

Let 'x' be the number of seats in a single row, and 'y' be the total number of rows in the rectangular auditorium.

Then the total number of seats will be,

`\begin{gathered} =\text{Seats per row}\cdot\text{ Number of rows} \\ =x\cdot y \end{gathered}`

Given that total seats are 936,

`xy=936\ldots(1)`

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