Arena Plan - Performance Task

Scenario

Mr. Chen has asked your company to design a seating plan for a new NHL arena.
Currently his team plays in a rink like the one below.

Sample Arena

You must create a proposal to Mr. Chen that outlines the following information.
Support your proposal with appropriate mathematics.
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1. Mr. Chen wants the number of seats in the arena to be between 20 000 and 23
500. One ring of seats all the way around the rink is considered a row, and
row 1 is considered to be the row closest to the ice. He wants the number of
seats in each row to form an arithmetic sequence, increasing by the same
number in each subsequent row. Your task is to decide on the total number of
seats in the arena by designing a seating arrangement that has a reasonable
number of rows by determining:

a. The number of seats in the first row.

400
b. The number of rows required.
10
c. The number of seats by which each row increases.
400
d. The number of seats in the last row.
4,000
e. The total number of seats in the arena.
22,000

2. In his current arena, Mr. Chen charges Php300 000 per season for seats in
rows 1-10, Php200 000 per season for seats in rows 11-20, Php150 000 per
season for seats in rows 21-30, and Php100 000 per season for seats in rows
31-40. He thinks that a fair way to decide on season ticket prices is to use a
geometric sequence, and decrease the price in each subsequent row by the
same factor based on the price of the row in front of it. For your proposal

a. Determine a reasonable price per game for each seat in the first row.
$373
b. Determine the factor by which the cost of each seat per game will decrease
in each subsequent row from row 1.
1.25
c. Determine the price per game of each seat in the last row.
$50
3. There are 31 home games in the regular season. Given that he needs to sell
every seat in the arena and generate at least Php50 000 000 in revenue,
determine the following:

a. The total revenue he will generate by selling all the seats in his rink at the
prices you set above. You may have to adjust the prices you set above in
order to generate at least Php50 000 000 in revenue.
$78,283,999.25
 Your proposal can take any form, but must be supported by mathematics.

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