SOLUTION: A theater has 30 rows of seat, the first row has 10 seats and each row thereafter has 1 more seat than the previous row. How many seat are in the theater and what is the equation?

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Question 135025: A theater has 30 rows of seat, the first row has 10 seats and each row thereafter has 1 more seat than the previous row. How many seat are in the theater and what is the equation?
Answer by vouge(2) About Me  (Show Source):
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row 1: 10
row 2: 11
row 3: 12
row 4: 13
and so on
keep adding 1 each time and the result is: 774 seats