Question

A stadium had a total of 19,000 seats. Of these seats 5,500 are field seats, and the rest are grandstand seats. Complete an equation that could be used to find s, the number of grandstand seats

Answer 1

Answer: The equation to find Number of grand seats, s are either of the following

x+ s= Total seats

x+s= 19,000

5000+s= 19,000

Number of grand seats, s= 14,000

Explanation:

Step 1

A stadium had a total of 19,000 seats.

Given that field seats=5,500

And the rest which are grandstand seats=?

Let field seats be represented as x and grand seats be represented as s

such that the total number of seats can be expressed as

x+ s = Total seats

x+ s= 19,000-------- Equation.

5000+s= 19,000

Step 2

Such that given field seats, x= 5000, Number of grand seats will now be

x + s= 19,000

5000 + s= 19,000

s= 19,000-5000

=14,000 seats