The theater has 7 rows of 8 chairs. For an upcoming show the theater needs to have 5 times more chairs. They are able to add 3 more chairs to each row and can add as many rows as they need. How many total rows would be required?

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Khalil Lambert

Mathematics

20 June, 01:36

The theater has 7 rows of 8 chairs. For an upcoming show the theater needs to have 5 times more chairs. They are able to add 3 more chairs to each row and can add as many rows as they need. How many total rows would be required?

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Cindy Shepard · Answer 1

26 rows

Step-by-step explanation

Since each row as 8 chairs and they can add 3 chairs to each row,

the rows can now have 11 chairs in them.

they needed 5x as many chairs as 8x7. this equals 280 chairs (8x7=56--> 56x 5 = 280) 280 divided by 11 chairs per row is 25.48 which is 26 rows with some empty chairs left over, therefore your answer is 26 rows.