Question

In a school auditorium, the number of chairs in a row is the same as the number of rows of chairs. There are 7033 students in the school. If we know that less than 31 chairs were empty, how many chairs were empty after all the students sat down?

Answer 1

Same number of rows to chairs in a row would form a square.

Use the total number of students as the area

Find the number or rows by taking the square root of student:

The square root of 7033 is 83.86

Round up to 84

Total seats would be rows x seats per row:

84 x 84 = 7,056 total seats

7056 seats - 7033 students = 23 empty seats