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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Suppose you have a checkerboard, and a set of dominoes. Each domino is twice the area of a square of the checkerboard. Clearly, you could cover the entire checkerboard with thirty-two dominoes. But here's the question: Suppose you chopped off two opposite corners of the checkerboard. Can you now completely cover the remainder of the board using thirty-one dominoes?

OpenStudy (experimentx):

two opposite corners??

OpenStudy (experimentx):

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OpenStudy (anonymous):

no. you cant

OpenStudy (anonymous):

u cant

OpenStudy (anonymous):

arthur-engel prob

OpenStudy (anonymous):

opposite corners are of the same color...

OpenStudy (anonymous):

as the chopped squares r of same color, there will b 32-30 left

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