People of Sundargram planted trees in the village garden. Some of the trees were fruit trees. The number of non-fruit trees were two more than three times the number of fruit trees. What was the number of fruit trees planted if the number of non-fruit trees planted was $77$ ?

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Solution

Let, fruit tree = x

Non-fruit tree = y = 77

from question

$y = 2 + 3 x = 77$

$3 x = 77 - 2$

$x = \frac{75}{3} = 25 t r e e s$

$∴$ the number of fruit trees is $25$

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People of Sundargram planted trees in the village garden. Some of the trees were fruit trees. The number of non-fruit trees were two more than three times the number of fruit trees. What was the number of fruit trees planted if the number of non-fruit trees planted was 77?

Let, fruit tree = xNon-fruit tree = y = 77from questiony=2+3x=773x=77−2x=753=25trees∴ the number of fruit trees is 25

People of Sundargram planted trees in the village garden. Some of the trees were fruit trees. The number of non-fruit trees were two more than three times the number of fruit trees. What was the number of fruit trees planted if the number of non-fruit trees planted was $77$ ?

Let, fruit tree = x

Non-fruit tree = y = 77

from question

$y = 2 + 3 x = 77$

$3 x = 77 - 2$

$x = \frac{75}{3} = 25 t r e e s$

$∴$ the number of fruit trees is $25$