Question

a rectangular auditorium seats 2898 people. the number of seats in each row exceeds the number of rows by 17. find the number of seats​

Answer 1

There are 46 rows with 63 seats in each row

Explanation:

I started looking for a whole number dividing seats and rows to make up the two pieces we need to multiply. I started backward from 70 (lucky guess) and then worked my way down to 63 and 46.

Now I was also looking for something more elegant in an algabraic formula and I stated with x being the number of rows and the seats being (x=17)

so I started with X(X+17)=2898 but that fif sot pan out other than to take me to x squared +17 = 2898 - subtract 17 from each side xsquared equals 2916

square root of 2916 is 54 which started my searching for a random number.

I got lucky