Question

The first row of a concert hall has 25 seats and each row after the first has one more seat than the row before it. There are 2 rows of seat. 1)Write a rule for the number of seats in the nth row.
2)35 students from a class want to sit in the same row. How close to the front can they sit?

Answer 1

The statement, "There are 2 rows of seat" , is confusing.

Is there a front row of 25, then an aisle, and another 25 seats for the entire first row ???

Please be more specific.
Once that is cleared it looks like a simple arithmetic sequence question
with
a = 25
d = 1

Answer 2

Sorry...there are 32 rows of seats

Answer 3

Now it is very easy

tⁿ = a+(n-1)d
= 25 + (n-1)(1)
= 24 + n

so which row comes closest to 35 ?
24+n=n35
n=11

The 35 students can sit all in row 11

Answer 4

Thanks! I knew it was row 11 but didn't know how to write a formula to prove it...