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Denise is designing the seating arrangement for a concert at an outdoor theater. To give everyone a good view, each row must have 6 more seats than the row before it, and the 1st row can only have 11 seats. Explain to Denise how to create an equation to predict the number of seats in any row. Then using your equation. show your work to determine the number of seats in row 18.

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Answer:113

Explanation:

To create an equation to predict the number of seats in any row, we need to start by defining a few variables:

Let's call the number of seats in the first row "a".

Let's call the number of additional seats in each row after the first row "d".

Since we know that each row has 6 more seats than the previous row, we can set d equal to 6:

d = 6

We also know that the first row has 11 seats, so we can set a equal to 11:

a = 11

To find the number of seats in any row, we can use the following formula:

number of seats in a given row = a + (n - 1) * d

Where "n" is the number of the row we are interested in.

Using this formula, we can find the number of seats in row 18:

number of seats in row 18 = 11 + (18 - 1) * 6

= 11 + 102

= 113

Therefore, there are 113 seats in row 18.

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