Walking carefully on a grid - 1

Find the total number of ways to move from point A A to point B B on the lines of the 3 × 4 3 \times 4 grid while avoiding the red lines.

It is allowed only to move down and right.

29 23 19 27

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2 solutions

Jesse Li
Mar 1, 2019

You need to make a total of 7 moves, and 3 must be down while 4 must be right. Therefore, there are ( 7 3 ) = 35 {7 \choose 3}=35 ways to choose the 3 moves to go down if there are no red lines.

We can subtract the amount of paths that go through a red line.

If we pass through the bottom left red line, there is one way to get to the red line, and 4 ways to get to the bottom right corner afterwards.

If we pass through the top right red line, there are 2 ways to get to the red line, and ( 4 2 ) = 6 {4 \choose 2 }=6 ways to get to the bottom right corner afterwards, so in total, there are 2 × 6 = 12 2 \times 6 =12 ways.

35 4 12 = 19 35-4-12=\boxed{19}

Ossama Ismail
Feb 26, 2019

Easy approach:

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