Find the number of squares in this picture?

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2 Answers
Aug 19, 2017

40 squares

Explanation:

Work according to a system otherwise you will miss some.

There are 2 sizes of squares shown: smaller ones and bigger ones.

Count the number of:

Smaller squares: there are 8

Bigger squares: there are 4 rows of 4, and the 2 made up of the smaller squares: there are 18

Squares of side 2 xx2: 3 rows of 3: there are 9

Squares of side 3xx3: 2 rows of 2: there are 4

Squares of side 4xx4: there is 1 big square.

Total number of squares: 8+18+9+4+1 = 40

Aug 26, 2017

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Consider this figure .

Here side of largest square has 4 equal divisons to make each smallest squares.

The number of total squares is =1^2+2^2+3^2+4^2=30

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And similarly for above figure total number of squares is 1^2+2^2=5

So following this rule we can say that the given figure should have total number of squares =30+5+5=40

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