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Rooks on a chessboard (Posted on 2018-11-26)

How many ways are there to place two rooks on the same column or same row on a nxn chessboard?

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re(2): soln attempt

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(In reply to re: soln attempt by Ady TZIDON)

OK, then multiply by 4 for WB BW BB WW for each answer:

4(n^3-n^2)

Edited on November 26, 2018, 11:47 pm

Posted by Steven Lord on 2018-11-26 23:46:27

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