An auditorium has 300 seats. There are 25 rows of seats in the auditorium. The manager of the auditorium wrote the equation below.
25 · n = 300
A. Solve for the variable n in the equation. Show all your work.
B. Explain what the variable n represents in the equation.
C. The manager sold tickets for all 300 seats. Just before the movie started, the manager counted 23 empty seats in the auditorium.
Write an equation that could be used to find the number of people (p that was in the auditorium seats just before the movie started. Explain why your equation is correct.
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Step-by-step explanation:
A.
25×n = 300 (Dividing both sides by 25)
=> n = 300/25 = 12
B.
n represents the number of seats in each row.
C.
Total number of seats = 300
Number of seats unoccupied = 23
Number of seats occupied by people = Number of people
= 300-23 = 277
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