Each cell in a grid contains one of the digits and
Based on this original grid, a new grid--shown below--is formed, in which the number in each cell represents the sum of the digits in the neighboring cells in the original grid, i.e. all the cells that surround a given cell horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.
Determine the number of 2's in the original grid.
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There are 1 6 simultaneous linear equations to solve for the grid entries. This set of equations is consistent, and the associated 1 6 × 1 6 matrix has rank 1 4 , so there is a 2 -parameter family of solutions as follows: a a − b 2 + a − b 1 + a b 4 − a 3 − a 2 + b b + 2 1 − a 2 − a 3 + b a + 2 a − b 1 + a − b a − 1 The facts that 1 − a , a − 1 and 3 + b are integers between 0 and 3 tell us that a = 1 and b = 0 , making the grid 1 1 3 2 0 3 2 2 2 0 1 3 3 1 2 0 and hence there are 5 2 s in the grid.