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Ten equals twenty?

Started by bonanova, Sep 06 2007 07:29 AM

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#1 bonanova

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Posted 06 September 2007 - 07:29 AM

A clever gardener had 10 seedling trees:

[tree1] [tree2] [tree3] [tree4] [tree5] [tree6] [tree7] [tree8] [tree9] [tree10]

Rather than place them all in a line, he planted them in 5 rows of 4 trees each.
Explain.
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Posted 07 September 2007 - 05:32 PM

Hint
no two of the rows were parallel
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Posted 07 September 2007 - 09:35 PM

it is a star shape... am i right?
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Posted 08 September 2007 - 03:32 AM

Yup. Basically .... like this.

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