Question

a theater has 30 rows with 27 seats in the first row, 31 in the second row, 35 in the third row, and so forth. How many seats are in the theater

Answer 1

Answer:

Question relates to a Arithmetic Sequence {30,32,34...} where d = 2

and the terms are the enumber of seats in each row.

S%5Bn%5D=%28n%2F2%29%282%2Aa%5B1%5D%2B+%28n-1%29d%29  |Sum of the seats in the 26 rows.

S%5B26%5D=%2826%2F2%29%282%2A30%2B+%2825%292%29 = 1430 seats in the ALL 26 rows

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