A certain theatre is shaped so that the first row has 23 seats and, moving towards the back, each successive row has 2 seats more than the previous row. If the last row contains 81 seats and the total number of seats in the theatre is 1560, how many rows are there?
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Answer:There are [tex]30[/tex] rows in the theater.Step-by-step explanation:Given terms.Seats in order [tex]23,25,27....[/tex] will form an Arithmetic progression.As the common difference [tex]d=2[/tex],same for three consecutive terms so this an AP.Now accordingly we can put the AP terms.Total number of seats [tex]S_{n}=1560[/tex]Seats in the first row [tex]a=23[/tex]Seats in the last row [tex]l=81[/tex]Summation of [tex]n[/tex] terms in AP[tex](S_{n})[/tex][tex]S_n={\frac{n}{2}[2a+(n-1)d]}[/tex]OR[tex]S_n=\frac{n}{2}[a+l][/tex]Using the second equation.[tex]S_n=\frac{n}{2}[a+l][/tex][tex]1560=\frac{n}{2}[23+81][/tex][tex]n=\frac{2\times 1560}{23+81}=\frac{3120}{104}=30[/tex]So the number of rows (n) in the theater [tex]=30[/tex]