Question

PLEASSEEE HELP ME OUT WITH THIS ONE The city of McLean is doing construction on their local baseball stadium to increase guest capacity. When the stadium was built in 1975, it had 3000 seats. Several years ago, they increased the number of seats by 30%. Now, this renovation is taking the current size of the stadium and upping the capacity by 25%.

After this renovation, by how many seats has the guest capacity of McLean's baseball stadium increased since 1975?

Answer 1

Answer: 1875 seats since 1975.

Explanation:

Let's call the number of seats in the stadium after the first renovation S.

According to the problem, the number of seats was increased by 30% from the original 3000, so the number of seats after the first renovation was 3000 + (0.30 * 3000) = 3000 + 900 = 3900.

Now, the stadium's capacity is being increased by 25% from 3900, so the new number of seats is 3900 + (0.25 * 3900) = 3900 + 975 = 4875.

Finally, to find the total increase in seats since 1975, we subtract the original number of seats (3000) from the new number of seats (4875):

4875 - 3000 = 1875

Therefore, the guest capacity of McLean's baseball stadium has increased by 1875 seats since 1975.