209.--THE TWENTY-ONE TREES.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

A gentleman wished to plant twenty-one trees in his park so that they should form twelve straight rows with five trees in every row. Could you have supplied him with a pretty symmetrical arrangement that would satisfy these conditions?

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