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Count the total number of squares in the irregular grid above.

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Clarifications:

  • Squares are rectangles that have the same width and height, e.g. 1 × 1 1\times1 , 2 × 2 2\times2 , 3 × 3 3\times3 , etc.

This is one part of Quadrilatorics .


The answer is 2207.

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1 solution

Kenneth Tan
Mar 14, 2016

We'll divide the grid into 3 parts, A, B and the shaded part: So the number of squares in the original grid is equal to the number of squares in grid A, plus the number of squares in grid B, minus the number of squares in the shaded grid.

Using the formula from this note , the number of squares in grid A ( a = 13 a=13 , b = 21 b=21 , a a is the width of the grid while b b is the height of the grid, but since a < b a<b we swap them around so it becomes a = 21 a=21 , b = 13 b=13 ) is 13 × 14 × ( 3 × 21 13 + 1 ) 6 = 1547 \frac{13\times14\times(3\times21-13+1)}{6}=1547

Similarly the number of squares in grid B ( a = 25 a=25 , b = 10 b=10 ) is 10 × 11 × ( 3 × 25 10 + 1 ) 6 = 1210 \frac{10\times11\times(3\times25-10+1)}{6}=1210

The number of squares in the shaded grid ( a = 13 a=13 , b = 10 b=10 ) is 10 × 11 × ( 3 × 13 10 + 1 ) 6 = 550 \frac{10\times11\times(3\times13-10+1)}{6}=550

Hence, the number of squares in the original grid is 1547 + 1210 550 = 2207 1547+1210-550=2207 .

Ahh, i mistook it for number of quadrilaterals and got the answer is 33891 33891 .

Ashish Menon - 5 years, 2 months ago

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