Question

Liam is setting up folding chairs for a meeting. If he arranges the chairs in 9 rows of the same length, he has 3 chairs left over. If he arranges the chairs in 7 rows of that same length, he has 19 left over. How many chairs does Liam have?

Answer 1

75 chairs! I hope this helps;)

Answer 2

He has 75 chairs
The x represents the amount of chairs in each row while the number attached to the exponent shows how many rows he was able to set up with the extra chairs
9x + 3 = 7x + 19
-7x -3 -7x -3
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2x=16 x=8
2 2
Plug 8 back into the equation and you see that it equals 75 on both sides. So that means Liam has 75 chairs to set up