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In the orange garden of Mr. Madhusudan there are 150 orange trees. The number of trees in each row is 5 more than that in each column. Find the number of trees in each row and each column with the help of following flow chart.

Let the number of columns be x

∴ rows = x + 5



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Hence, columns cannot be negative. ∴ columns are 10


and rows are 15.


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