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How Many Seats Worksheet

How Many Seats?

Rosa is very excited about the pizzeria that she is opening soon. Her cousin Vinnie says he

knows a guy who can get tables for cheaper than anyone else. Rosa is thrilled and tells Vinnie to

buy the tables.

When Vinnie comes back, this is what the tables look like from up above:

Rosa says, “Oh, Vinnie! What have you done? I can’t have triangular tables in

my restaurant! What if more than 3 people want to sit together?

Vinnie says, “No problem, Rosa. You can just stick the tables together in a row like this:”

Rosa says, “But where will the chairs go?”

“No problem,” said Vinnie, who always had an answer for everything. “We’ll just put one chair

in the middle of each side of a table like this”

“But Vinnie,” said Rosa, “how will we know how many chairs to put at each table when they are

such funny shapes? We could figure it out every time, but it would be better if we had a way to

predict how many chairs we will need if we know the number of tables.”

“Well, Rosa,” said Vinnie. “I got the tables. You can figure out about the chairs.”

Rosa sighed, as she so often did when Vinnie was around.

Can we help Rosa? Can we find a way to predict how many seats we will need if we know the

number of chairs?

How Many Seats Worksheet