Problem 1174. Wheat on a chessboard pt 2
If a chessboard were to have wheat placed upon each square such that x grains were placed on the first square and each successive square after had y times the amount of grains as the square before. How many grains of wheat would be on the chessboard at the finish?
Assume the chess board is n by n squares.
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Dyuman Joshi
on 10 Apr 2021
Removed the cases with negative quantities. Everyone should be able to solve the problem now.
ChrisR
on 5 May 2021
Is test 4 incorrect?
Dyuman Joshi
on 5 May 2021
@ChrisR, Yes it was incorrect, and has been corrected.
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