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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 1:15am.

An auditorium has 49 rows of seats. The first row contains 40 seats. As you move to the rear of the auditorium, each row has 3 more seats than the previous row. -How many seats are in the auditorium?

• math - Reiny, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:31am

  This is an arithmetic series Sum(n) = (n/2)[2a + (n-1)d] where a is the first term n is the number of terms d is the common difference, and Sum(n) is the sum of the n terms So you want Sum(49) with a=40, d=-3 and n = 49 substitute

  
  

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