Question

6. The Grand Theater has 13,451 seats. If 15,340 people need to be seated in the theater for a music concert, write and solve

an equation to find the number of seats that need to be added to the theater to accommodate all the people.

Answer 1

The number of seats needed is:

• 1889

Explanation:

To identify the number of seats you need add in the theater to accommodate all the people, you can write a simple equation where you subtract from all people need to be seated (15,340), the seats already there are (13,451), how I show below:

• NS = x - y

Where:

• NS = Number of seats that need to be added.
• x = People need to be seated in the theater.
• y = The seats there.

Replacing the equation with the values:

• NS = 15,340 - 13,451
• NS = 1,889