SOLUTION: The top view of a school bus showing the arrangement of the passenger seats is shown below. Which of the following is the correct way of counting the total number of passenger seat

Question 1164199: The top view of a school bus showing the arrangement of the passenger seats is shown below. Which of the following is the correct way of counting the total number of passenger seats in the bus? An explanation is required.
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Option A: 3 + 2 × 12 + 6
Option B: 6 - 1 × 13 + 1
Option C: 5 × 12 + 6
Option D: 2 + 3 × 13 - 12
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You need to get to 66.
Option C makes sense, because there are 5 seats across*12 rows with the last row being 6 seats.
Option B gets to 66 but is more convoluted. There are 5 rows of 13, so (6-1)*13 does work, but more mathematically and not quite in the scope of this problem. The +1 is the center seat in the back row.
The other two choices don't equal 66.
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