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Lorena runs a landscape company. A customer wants her to plant 10 trees, but the trees have to be planted in rows with 4 trees in each row. What shape will the trees be planted in?

User Inon Peled
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There are several shapes that fulfill these requirements. All involve to parallel rows of 4, then the other two trees forming a perpendicular for (using a tree from each of the other two rows).
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