Problema Solution
An orchard has 500 orange trees. The number of rows exceeds the number of trees per row by 5. How many trees are there in each row?
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Let
x = the number of trees per row
x + 5 = the number of rows
The total number of trees is 500:
x(x + 5) = 500
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x = 20 trees
We need to to ignore the negative solution since the number of trees can not be negative.
There are 20 trees in each row.