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We address three questions posed by K. Bibak (2020), and generalize some results of K. Bibak, D. N. Lehmer and K. G. Ramanathan on solutions of linear congruences ${\sum }_{i=1}^k{a}_i{x}_i\equiv b(modn)$. In particular, we obtain explicit expressions for the number of solutions, where $x_i$’s are squares modulo $n$. In addition, we obtain expressions for the number of solutions with order restrictions $x_1\ge \cdots \ge x_k$ or with strict order restrictions $x_1>\cdots >x_k$ in some special cases. In these results, the expressions for the number of solutions involve Ramanujan...