Question

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?

Answer 1

two opposite corners??

Answer 2

no. you cant

Answer 3

u cant

Answer 4

arthur-engel prob

Answer 5

opposite corners are of the same color...

Answer 6

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