Jorge walks along a rectangular path, where twelve trees are placed with a $5 \mathrm{~m}$ distance between two consecutive ones. Jorge plays a game of touching each tree during his walk.

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First, he touches the tree at the corner, marked with $\mathrm{P}$ in the figure, and walks 32 meters in one direction; then he walks back 18 meters and finally walks forward another 22 meters. How many trees did he touch?
The figures illustrate the route that Jorge took:

- walking $32 m$ at the beginning, he touches 7 trees and stops $2 m$ from the last one he touched;
- going back $18 m$, he touches 4 trees and stops $1 m$ from the last one he touched;
- upon returning $22 m$, he touches 5 trees and stops $1 m$ from the last one he touched.
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Thus, he touched $7+4+5=16$ trees.