SOLUTION: a farmer plants trees in rows in a rectangular field.if each row has three times as many trees as there are rows and if there are 972 trees in the field, how many trees are there

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Question 293404: a farmer plants trees in rows in a rectangular field.if each row has three times as many trees as there are rows and if there are 972 trees in the field, how many trees are there in each row ?
a 18 b 27 c 36 d 54

Answer by richwmiller(17219) About Me  (Show Source):
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18 rows with 54 trees in each row
x*3x=972
x*x=324
x=18
3x=54