Big help request...

Question

I am writing a program for school (and as such I cannot write it in a way that makes sense to normal people) using a one dimensional array with 50 integers. After prompting the user for the initial value (and making it an odd number no matter what they submitted), I have filled the array with multiples of that number using the count of the counter as the multiplier.
Ok, so everything is good up to this point in the program.
Now, I have to print out the contents of the array BUT it must be printed in rows of 10 numbers only (ie. I cannot print out the entire table nor can I change the table to a 2 dimensional array - because, you know, that would be too easy not to mention what a normal person would do). Having banged my head against the desk for three days now, I am going to beg for help on this...
Here is the solution that I am currently using so that I can write the rest of the program (even though I know there must be a better way to do this)...
               /* Filling the array using info provided. */
               for (int x = 0; x < array.length; x++)
                    array[x] = start * (x + 1);
          /* Printing the newly filled array in rows of 10. If there is a better way to do this, please let                me know.*/          
     System.out.print(array[0] + " " + array[1] + " " + array[2] + " " + array[3] + " " + array[4] + " ");               System.out.print( + array[5] + " " + array[6] + " " + array[7] + " " + array[8] + " " + array[9]);
     System.out.print("\n" + array[10] + " " + array[11] + " " + array[12] + " " + array[13] + " " + array[14] + " ");          System.out.print( + array[15] + " " + array[16] + " " + array[17] + " " + array[18] + " " + array[19]);
     System.out.print("\n" + array[20] + " " + array[21] + " " + array[22] + " " + array[23] + " " + array[24] + " ");          System.out.print( + array[25] + " " + array[26] + " " + array[27] + " " + array[28] + " " + array[29]);
     System.out.print("\n" + array[30] + " " + array[31] + " " + array[32] + " " + array[33] + " " + array[34] + " ");          System.out.print( + array[35] + " " + array[36] + " " + array[37] + " " + array[38] + " " + array[39]);
     System.out.print("\n" + array[40] + " " + array[41] + " " + array[42] + " " + array[43] + " " + array[44] + " ");          System.out.print( + array[45] + " " + array[46] + " " + array[47] + " " + array[48] + " " + array[49]);
Can anyone pretty please tell me how to do this more efficiently? There has to be a better way than going through and printing each element one by one like this, I simply cannot wrap my brain around it.
Thanks for any advice you can give!
Wulf

Answer 1

backward, u mean array[49] .... array[0]
public class PrintArray
     public static void main(String [] args) {
       int [] array = new int[50];
       for(int n = 0; n < array.length; n++) {
         array[n] = n;     
       for(int n = 49; n >= 0; n--) {
         if(n > 9){    //
           System.out.print(array[n] + " ");
         } else {
           System.out.print((array[n]*array[n])+ " ");
         //print new line at element index 40,30,20,10,0
         if(n%10 == 0) {
           System.out.println();
}