1972 AHSME Problems/Problem 28
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Problem 28
A circular disc with diameter is placed on an
checkerboard with width
so that the centers coincide. The number of checkerboard squares which are completely covered by the disc is
Solution
Consider the upper right half of the grid, which consists of a 4x4 section of the checkerboard and a quarter-circle of radius 4. We can draw this as a coordinate grid and shade in the complete squares. There are 8 squares in the upper right corner, so there are whole squares in total.
The answer is
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