The number of seats a row has at a comedy festival follows a regular pattern where the first row has  seats and the number of seats in each successive row increases by  seats.  In the fourth row there are  seats and in the sixteenth row there are  seats.
Write down an equation, in terms of and , for the number of seats
Find the value of and the value of .
The festival has 18 rows of seats in total.
Calculate the total number of seats.
The price for a seat in the first row is  and the price decreases by  each successive row.
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