SOLUTION: A square checkerboard contains a rows and columns of squares. One checker piece is placed in each square on the boundary of the checkerboard. If b is the number of pieces required

Question 973727: A square checkerboard contains a rows and columns of squares. One checker piece is placed in each square on the boundary of the checkerboard. If b is the number of pieces required to do this, what is one possible value of b?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A square checkerboard contains a rows and columns of squares. One checker piece is placed in each square on the boundary of the checkerboard. If b is the number of pieces required to do this, what is one possible value of b?
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If it's an 8 by 8 board, it's 30 checkers.
In general, if the board is n by n, it's 4n - 2
If it's m by n, tho I've never seen a board that's not square, it's 2m + 2n - 2
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