Calculate this~!

MUST be solved in your head!

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#46 rdsrds2120   User is offline

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Re: Calculate this~!

Posted 23 December 2008 - 03:15 PM

Nice try, but the squares are ANY SIZE

~~ANY SIZE squares~~

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Re: Calculate this~!

Posted 23 December 2008 - 03:20 PM

Yes, but the size of the square does not affect the number of squares.

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Posted 23 December 2008 - 03:26 PM

I lost count, but I think it's about 115?

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Posted 23 December 2008 - 03:40 PM

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Yes, but the size of the square does not affect the number of squares.


It does if some squares are made up of smaller squares.

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Posted 23 December 2008 - 05:21 PM

I got it to 126 but I might have missed one. So if I'm wrong, I would recommend that someone guesses 127.

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Posted 23 December 2008 - 05:32 PM

127

I actually think it's about 118.

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Posted 23 December 2008 - 06:34 PM

View Posttody4me, on 23 Dec, 2008 - 05:20 PM, said:

Yes, but the size of the square does not affect the number of squares.


You guessed 62, which is two less than the number of the small individual squares . The point I was trying to get across is that there are squares inside aquares. There is actually a formula to solve this. Lets see if anybody knows it. :D

And you all are getting really, really, close.

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Posted 23 December 2008 - 07:09 PM

Nope, you are all getting dangerously close, but there is a formula or it if anybody knows it. :)
(Ok, I don't know what is going, on, but every time I post, I don't see it until I post another reply, but by all means, continue)

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 02:17 AM

If there is a formula then one factor to the formula is the placement of the figures. I mean, if you put them adjacent to eachother in a corner you get alot more squares than in the current position

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 09:26 AM

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8 x 8 - 2 = 62 <- single squares
7 x 4 - 4 = 24 <- squares with sides of 2 smaller squares
6 x 3 - 6 = 12 <-squares with sides of 3 smaller squares
2 x 2 = 4 <-squares with sides of 4 smaller squares

=102 total squares?

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 11:12 AM

View PostGloin, on 24 Dec, 2008 - 04:17 AM, said:

If there is a formula then one factor to the formula is the placement of the figures. I mean, if you put them adjacent to eachother in a corner you get alot more squares than in the current position


This is right. KYA got the formula kinda close, but everybody else was closer to the answer.

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Re: Calculate this~!

Posted 24 December 2008 - 12:38 PM

I count squares with side lengths:
  • 62
  • 36
  • 18
  • 6
  • 1

which makes for 123 total squares.

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 12:48 PM

your missing some 2 and 3 siders

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 12:57 PM

138

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Re: Calculate this~!

Posted 24 December 2008 - 01:05 PM

too high

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