Question

The seating capacity of a basketball stadium is 5,782. The seats are arranged in 24 sections of the same size. Any seats that are leftover from the 24 sections are called priority seats. How many seats are priority seats? I did not understand how to solve this problem.

Answer 1

Divide capacity by sections:

5782 / 24 = 240.9167

The number of seats in each section is needs to be a whole number so there are 240 seats per section:

240 seats per section x 24 sections = 5,760 seats.

Priority seats is capacity - total section seats:

5782 - 5760 = 22

There are 22 priority seats