Question 1116660: An event organizer is reserving rooms for two company-wide events. For the quarterly meeting this month, she reserved 3 conference rooms and 5 ballrooms, which can seat a total of 379 attendees. For safety training next month, she reserved 3 conference rooms and 4 ballrooms, which can seat 314 attendees. How many attendees can each room accommodate?
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An event organizer is reserving rooms for two company-wide events.
For the quarterly meeting this month, she reserved 3 conference rooms and 5 ballrooms, which can seat a total of 379 attendees.
For safety training next month, she reserved 3 conference rooms and 4 ballrooms, which can seat 314 attendees.
How many attendees can each room accommodate?
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This problem is for mental solution.
1. After reading the text, you should see that the difference of 379 - 314 = 65 is exactly the capacity of one ballroom.
2. Then the capacity of each conference room is one third of 314-4*65, or  = 18.
Answer. 18 persons for each conference room and 65 persons for each ballroom.
Solved.
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