Tuesday, February 28, 2006

How many squares would there be?

If you were to construct a 7 x 7 checkered square (i.e., a 7 x 7 chess board), how many squares would there be in total? (Hint: it's not 49)

4 comments:

  1. Is it 140??

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  2. Here's how I did it. There is one 7 x 7 square. There are 4 6 x 6 squares. ...
    5 x 5 = 9
    4 x 4 = 16
    ...
    1 x 1 = 49

    For a total of 1 + 2^2 + 3^2 + 4^2 + 5^2 + 6^2 + 7^2 = 140 squares.

    So I got the same answer as you did tjb.

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  3. you have to count the numbers of it and the larger sized number and the larger larger and then count the whole big square as one.

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  4. The answer is 140

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