How many squares puzzle

Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Well, sort of, you can look at each "atom" piece and count how many squares that is the upper right hand corner of. This i a simplification of simply figuring out the squares in a complete grid and subtracting the one that rectangles make impossible.

A 4x4 grid will have: 16 1x1 squares; 9 2x2 squares as there are 3 squares in each of the top 3 rows that can be an upper right hand corner of a 3x3 square , 4 3x3 squares, and 1 4x4 square.

The right side triangle eliminates 2 1x1 squares 1 2x2 that was already eliminated and a 3x3. So only 21 possible. Where is the number of hashes. A hash being division of a square by a set of orthogonal equally spaced including overlapping ; as is the initial case parallel lines such that the corner square is exactly one fourth the area of the centre square.

Well the answer is How I do these problems is first i count the 1x1 squares. There is 8 of them. Then I count the 2x2 squares.

There is 5 of them. Then 3x3 squares. There is four of them. And then the 4x4 square. Total In each square size I go from left to right top to bottom. In each open space, I counted the number of squares that shared the upper left corner. Can't be an even number as only one outside square. I counted Amidst the lockdown, people have been resorting to social media and other communication apps to keep in touch with their friends and family.

In fact, Whatsapp has become a source of entertainment for everyone ever since the Coronavirus lockdown was announced. People can be seen sharing puzzles and quizzes daily to share a light-hearted moment with their family and friends and keep each other entertained.

These Whatsapp puzzles help one to use their brains as they can be very challenging at times. Moreover, these puzzles help one pass their time as well.

Read on to see the puzzle, its answers along with the solution. Go ahead, try to count yourself. Still stumped? The correct answer to the puzzle is 40 squares. The image is made up of eight tiny squares, 18 single squares, nine 2 x 2 squares, four 3 x 3 squares, and one 4 x 4 square.

Still not sure where to find these supposed squares? The image below breaks it down for you so you can see each square in the image. How many of the squares did you miss?