Red Paint 2 – Corners

Consider the pattern above. How many of the unit squares in a 9 × 9 9 \times 9 square will be painted red on exactly 2 sides?


The answer is 4.

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2 solutions

Mudra Desai
Aug 10, 2014

Only the corners are painted red on exactly 2 sides. A square of any size has only 4 corners. Therefore ..

Guiseppi Butel
Jun 21, 2014

Only the corners are painted red on exactly 2 sides. A square of any size has only 4 corners. Therefore ...

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