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

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

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

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