An 88 seat passenger plane has ten times as many economy seats as first class seats. Find the number of each type of seats.

Question

An 88 seat passenger plane has ten times as many economy seats as first class seats. Find the number of each type of seats.

Answer 1

Let's think of the number of "first class seats" as f.

 

How many more "economy seats" are there than "first class seats"? "ten times as many" or 10f

 

So, let's call the number of "economy seats" e. What does e equal? e=10f

 

Now, how many seats are there total? 88 seats

 

Ok, so let's put this all together like this:

 

f+e=88

 

(# of first class seats + # of economy seats = 88 seats)

 

What is e again? e=10f

 

Therefore,

 

f+10f=88

 

or

 

11f=88

 

Hope this helps...