Maths grammar please help~

Question

A row got 8 seats, we have only 5 people.

Question:

There are ___ people in the row not yet completely filled up.

The answer is 5 or 3 ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi, Young,

Rephrasing your question:

" A row has eight seats, but we have only 5 people. That would leave three seats empty if we took that row, so there are five people in that row which is not completely filled.

Assumptions: The five people sat in the row with 8 seats and there are no other rows in the venue that have unfilled seats. Those can't be confirmed within the language of the original question, making it a bit ambiguous.

Bob