Question

An orchard has 864 orange trees. The number of rows exceeds the number of trees per row by 5 . How many trees are there in each row?

Answer 1

`\bf \cfrac{rows}{\textit{trees in a row}}\qquad 5:1\qquad \cfrac{5}{1}\qquad \cfrac{5\cdot (864)/(5+1)}{1\cdot (864)/(5+1)}\implies \cfrac{5\cdot 144}{1\cdot 144}\implies \cfrac{720}{144}`