Problema Solution
The school band is going to perform a concert on the football field and allow spectators to stand on the field and watch.The dimensions of the football field are 360ft long and 160 ft wide. The 100 members of the band will use 60 feet of the length of the field and the rest of the field will be used for spectators. If a standing person occupies 2.5 square feet of space, approximately how many people could be on the football field during the concert?
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The total area of the field is:
A = 360*160
A = 57,600 ft^2
Let 'x' represent the number of spectators.
Assuming that the 100 members of the band use 60 square feet we have:
60 + 2.5x = 57,600
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x = 23,016 ft^2
Approximately 23,000 people could be on the football field.