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Tree planting exercise (Posted on 2006-10-21)

How can you plant seven straight rows of trees with six trees per row such that twenty-one trees are planted in total?

How can you plant nine straight rows of trees with three trees per row such that nine trees are planted in total?

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(0,0),(1,0),(2,0),(.5,1),(1,1),(1.5,1),(0,2),(1,2),(2,2)

This arrangement creates ten rows with the desired property.

Posted by K Sengupta on 2023-03-19 00:53:56

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