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At the local grocery store, cans of beans are arranged in rows. The number of cans in each row forms an arithmetic sequence. There are 93 cans in row 1, 88 cans in row 2, 83 cans in row 3, and so on. One row contains 48 cans. Which row is this?

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it seems the cans are arranged in a sequence 93,88,83,78,73,68,68,58,53,48 so the row containing 48 cans is row 10
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