Inspired by chess board

Find the total number of right-angled triangles that can be formed inside a 8 × 8 8\times8 chess board.


Clarification:

Triangles must be formed by joining 3 vertices of chessboard only.

Inspiration .


The answer is 5184.

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2 solutions

Rajdeep Brahma
Jan 17, 2018

No. Of rectangles is ((n+1)C2)^2....hence no . Of right angled triangle is 4× no. Of rectangles in the n×n chessboard.

There are 9 horizontal & vertical lines in the chess board consisting of 9 points.

For the horizontal line 'a' we have ,

We can select any two points in ( 9 2 ) \binom{9}{2} ways. Observe that for a pair of points , there are two reflecting points in it's adjacent horizontal line.

Suppose if we choose the lines 'a' & 'b' , we can have a reflecting point on 'b' for each of the points on 'a'.

We make 2 right angled triangles for any pair of points in a line with respect to another line. So number of right angled triangles for a line with respect to another line is ( 9 2 ) × 2 = 72 \binom{9}{2}\times 2=72 .

There are 9 lines , so number of right triangles for a line with respect to all other 8 lines = 72 × 8 = 576 72\times8=576

With the help of 1 line we can build up 576 \text{576} right triangles. For all 9 lines we can build 576 × 9 = 5184 576\times9=\boxed{5184}

Bonus : Generalize for a m × n board \text{Bonus : Generalize for a m }\times\text{ n board}

correct!!! or you can simply find out the number of rectangles, which is 1296 1296 . now each rectangle contains 4 4 right angled triangle. so total right angle triangle is equal to 1296 × 4 = 5184 1296×4=\boxed{5184} ...

that's it

Atul Shivam - 5 years, 1 month ago

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Yep absolutely, Just tried another way and derived everything & there's a typo in the comment, it would be rectangles

Aditya Narayan Sharma - 5 years, 1 month ago

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