THE TWENTY-ONE TREES

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?

Geometry Combinatorics -> Combinatorial Geometry

Sources:

Amusements in Mathematics, Henry Ernest Dudeney Question 209

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