PrePrimary lessons aren't easy!

When Megh was small, his preprimary teacher was teaching counting of shapes.

She was teaching about this type of shapes and counting the number of triangles in them.For, example, the following shape has eight triangles

Imagine an n × n n\times n grid made up of such boxes and count the number of triangles inside it. For example following is a 4 × 4 4\times 4 grid

But when the teacher saw Megh scribbling in his notebook, she asked him to tell her the number of triangles in an 4000 × 4000 4000\times 4000 grid. To her surprise he answered the number of triangles x x instantly.

Answer the digit sum of x x .

Details & Assumptions

  • This is but obviously a fake story inspired to be the one like Gauss's
  • The answer has been computer verified
  • Such a huge number was chosen to avoid use of computers
  • You might have to use a calculator to compute the answer
  • This problem was taken from Suganitam Magazine (where the answer is wrong. So, don't look :) )
  • If you are unclear, a 2 × 2 2\times 2 grid has 44 triangles.


The answer is 25.

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

1 solution

Megh Parikh
Jun 22, 2014

What did you mark with m in your sketch? Is this the number of squares that look out of the bigger square?

Katka Brlec - 6 years, 7 months ago

And I got this number...: 540605965491851642755500942953799728637146001200364779480094669121260725403202693002515704627042657940454382460062690304849145914393417993734822132485320603450630630831066821379908021122244000837054445050476842556523709440816107162516007584089392884398035368762987913933508788512990746826396645155417721060933231283394636370795890470062885973024479071983479751460237420599628857547283701857776063360560641249803965678669962833300118531922715003649110138442362804111786848433398044120587606061633486629798050744050669092160186898536821405674223011586838352291822985660746558428763199368292724469043812906967383383651291948669211709530630686526975299739022851991320574661862651437656896321185558174678527731021739960629782802871668016141103125527760656702221729574377855230115662656022701952225290478229987835418811084332506285825741649535219093671782461829790601590404044250051934376237283356263425728759124014867680681757823943397593813893804008853006823067162378002275206059205270300335652467164180999972680101434304306846254277346598052164492716868100554521704393716151906518327244678329980271441484576981247854508387156920269207602734001174179530714912777641361343849605553437299921173741289850208937125590881710120578633110627777959606458233197025049619926412156512357420992834358479484131259394491125484279814681051239504709753973361724775509791093312237249266242696906855046239999598189221179579766684324425262389555265108121732873428193433132750747222505389223150409776302555613745395339351029178503276606104815020677360830203700373434092137858655727199706979878982482273209894842775314165403823365626485183093284249941845875165787178295250008652155204732614112402331268229806120022506422571820314916673737071099421053398727137434806166529888758321354157772220680626616520854307639391057847793696951933987311965089367435683313600862498681681725290813124194220998488137816422885901910681451326490104379371839246850184854634359765582337917340356468542443286290702182200129433700130467423647657044034505178251529189330273431804964166633601658988502163859296675143559929014104382224709497029061910459014589207412128425944404261262316471963435146868655710608490486950897451542312649224982274126324861414660267013252455030615698296360336164996673747354425025521086493663425959363193178454403866506564774633497841862164874399370552179196298335458006828625567580921581910581333935021106955826295659441530450500

Julian Poon - 6 years, 10 months ago

Log in to reply

That is wrong. I have typed the formula in pdf. You should get 12 digit number.

Megh Parikh - 6 years, 10 months ago

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...