Question

A theatre has seats arranged in rows of 24, 382 people attend a show at the theatre. What is the smallest number of rows that is needed to seat these people? Show your working.

Answer 1

A minimum of 16 rows are needed

Explanation:

Answer 2

A minimum of 16 rows are needed

Explanation:

Here, we want to calculate the number of rows minimum that could seat 382 people in rows of 24 seats.

Mathematically, what we need to do here is to make a division.

We shall divide the number of people by the number of seats in a row so that we can get the number of rows needed.

Mathematically, that would be; 382/24 = 15 22/24

We are looking at a minimum number.

So we can see that 15 rows will be filled, with an extra 22 seats in the next row leaving only 2 seats in the next row unoccupied.

So we can see that the minimum number of rows required is 16 rows