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Question 216064: If a checker board had 8 rows and 8 columns how many squares are there? If you doubled the amount of rows and columns, how many squares would there be? The answer is 204, but I do not know how they got this answer. Please help.
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If a checker board had 8 rows and 8 columns how many squares are there? If you doubled the amount of rows and columns, how many squares would there be? The answer is 204, but I do not know how they got this answer.
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8 times 8 = 64 squares.
If you double both, it's 16 by 16 = 256 squares.
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I don't see how 204 is involved.