Andrea is designing the seating arrangement for a concert in her local park. To give everyone a good view, each row must have 4 more seats than the row before it, and the 1st row can only have 10 seats. Explain to Andrea how to create an equation to predict the number of seats in any row. Then, using your equation, show your work to determine the number of seats in row 20.

s=4x+6; 86 seats in row 20

Step-by-step explanation:

Each row has more more seats than the row in front of it, so if we write out the number of seats in each row, we get 10,14,18... which is an arithmetic sequence.

We can express this arithmetic sequence by first finding the common difference, which is the difference between each term of the sequence. In this case, they already give us the common difference of 4 as there are 4 more seats in each consecutive row. This means that every time the number of the row increases, that row will have 4 more seats, and this can be represented b 4x, where x is the number of the row.

Now, we can begin to make an equation, where s is the amount of seats in a row. s would have to equal 4x+ a constant, as there are already some seats in the front row. So, as we know how many seats are in the first row, we can solve for the constant. We would get the equation 10=4(1)+c. Solving the equation we get 10=4+c or c+6. This means our equation is s=4x+6 where x is the number of the row and s is the number of seats in a row.

Now to find how many seats are in row 20 we can replace x with 20 and solve:

the answer is  

a.

28 ft2

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