how many squares are in an 8x8 checkerboard? (the answer is not 64 because that's too low.)
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Continuing in this way we get squares of size 3 x 3, 4 x 4 and so on.
We can summarize the results as follows:
Size Of square Number of squares
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1 x 1 8^2 = 64
2 x 2 7^2 = 49
3 x 3 6^2 = 36
4 x 4 5^2 = 25
5 x 5 4^2 = 16
6 x 6 3^2 = 9
7 x 7 2^2 = 4
8 x 8 1^2 = 1
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Total = 204
There is a formula for the sum of squares of the integers
1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 + ... + n^2
n(n+1)(2n+1)
Sum = ------------
6
In our case, with n = 8, this formula gives 8 x 9 x 17/6 = 204.
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But wouldn't the answer be 64 though???? 8x8=64???
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