Ryan Baranowski

Mr. Harris
Math
11/17/17

Problem Set

For the board of Checkers problem set I couldn’t figure out a mathematical way to solve

this problem. I decided that I would have to count each one and add them all up. I would start

with the 1x1 and go through this process all the way up to 9x9 because that was the size of

square. When counting I soon realized it is not only the squares you can fit but it is also the way

you can shift each square to get the maximum number of squares possible into the box. This is

the part that took me the hardest to figure out but once I understood it this problem set became

much easier and I was able to get my final answer.

My final answer was 285 boxes can fit into a 9x9 square and I will break my number

down below.

1x1- 81 blocks

2x2- 64 blocks

3x3- 49 blocks

4x4- 36 blocks

5x5- 25 blocks

6x6- 16 blocks
7x7- 9 blocks

8x8- 4 blocks

9x9- 1 block

Total Blocks=285

So these numbers break down exactly how I came up with my 285 block number. You

must remember when looking at the Squares you are not going to see that many but you have to

remember the shifts that occurred in order to acquire that number.

Like I described above I didn’t really use and algebraic formula I just used some deep

thinking and graph paper to see how you must count and shift each box in order to maximize the

number of boxes.