Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, Seventh Edition

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0073383090
ISBN 13: 978-0-07338-309-5

Chapter 1 - Section 1.8 - Proof Methods and Strategy - Exercises - Page 109: 42

Answer

A Standard checkerboard contains $8$ rows and $8$ columns of tiles. The corners of the checkerboard should not contain any Dominoes. Place $3$ Dominoes in the First row, side by side and not covering the two corners. Place $3$ dominoes in the last row, side by side and not covering the two corners. Place $4$ Dominoes in every other row, side by side. The sky blue rectangles represent the Domino tiles,,, let's have a look at this.

Work Step by Step

A Standard checkerboard contains $8$ rows and $8$ columns of tiles. The corners of the checkerboard should not contain any Dominoes. Place $3$ Dominoes in the First row, side by side and not covering the two corners. Place $3$ dominoes in the last row, side by side and not covering the two corners. Place $4$ Dominoes in every other row, side by side. The sky blue rectangles represent the Domino tiles,,, let's have a look at this.
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