Question

Here are 56 trees in an apple orchard. They are arranged in equal rows. There are 8 trees in each row. How many rows of apple trees are there? Which equation can be used to solve this problem?

Answer 1

There would be 7 rows..
let x be the no.of trees and let y be the no. of rows.....
Sol.
xy=56
8y=56
8y/8=56/8 ---divide both sides by 8 to find y
y=7...so there were 7 rows with 8 apple trees each row...