Thanks to www.syvum.com for this brain teaser:
A 33″ x 33″ square metal plate needs to be fixed by a carpenter on to a wooden board. The carpenter uses nails all along the edges of the square such that there are 34 nails on each side of the square. Each nail is at the same distance from the neighboring nails. How many nails does the carpenter use?
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Answer: 132 nails
i got 136 simply by multiplying the four sides by 34. how did u get 132? by subtracting the four for the sides because of the distance?
count 1 corner but not the other so you count 33 nails on 1 side.
33×4=132
remember, you counted 4 corners and 4 sides if you remember. so you left out none but there are 34 on all sides.