Question

An airplane had a total of 387 seats. The number of coach class seats is 2 more than 4 times the number of first class seats. How many of each type of seat are there on the plane?

Answer 1

There are 77 first-class seats. We can use this information to now define the number of seats in coach. And there are 310 seats in coach.

Explanation:

Answer 2

coach seats is 310 and first class seats are 77

Explanation:

x+4x+2=387

5x+2=387

5x=385

x=77

4x+2

4(77)+2=310