Question

At this point, four students have different ideas on how to solve this problem.

Which student is correct?


Jocelyn: there should be 11 chairs in each row. You can take the square root of 121.


Davis: there should be 14,641 chairs in each row. You can square 121.


Seth: there should be 5 chairs in each row. You can find ∛121


Audrey: there should be 30 chairs in each row. You can take 121/4

Answer 1

Jocelyn is correct. Taking the square root of 121 gives you the number 11, which means there should be 11 chairs in each row.