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There is a 4x4 block apartment, therefore 16 rooms . The block has a number of internal gardens, replacing a room. For every free room there is a window. The windows are not allowed to show the outside. The windows may only show a internal garden. Internal garden may have any number of windows. How many Internal gardens are there in the 4x4 block.
HINT: Anwser is lower than 8.

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Originally posted by Knight Square
There is a 4x4 block apartment, therefore 16 rooms . The block has a number of internal gardens, replacing a room. For every free room there is a window. The windows are not allowed to show the outside. The windows may only show a internal garden. Internal garden may have any number of windows. How many Internal gardens are there in the 4x4 block.
HINT: Anwser is lower than 8.
easy. the answer is 4. each garden is rotated one from the corner, all in the same direction.

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??????? I don't know

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RRRR
RGGR
RGGR
RRRR

Like this or am I missing something here?

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Originally posted by JYD
RRRR
RGGR
RGGR
RRRR

Like this or am I missing something here?
but what about the corner rooms? they cant have a window that opens up to a garden.

I think it is like this:
RGRR
RRRG
GRRR
RRGR

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Indiana

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Originally posted by strokem1
but what about the corner rooms? they cant have a window that opens up to a garden.

I think it is like this:
RGRR
RRRG
GRRR
RRGR
thats what i meant. i just didnt have a diagram.

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Well this question was in a test I did. All the rooms have to have windows. The corners of the rooms cannot have windows, What is the least number of windows. I got 6. It has to adjacent.

GRRG
RGRR
RRGR
GRRG

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Originally posted by Knight Square
Well this question was in a test I did. All the rooms have to have windows. The corners of the rooms cannot have windows, What is the least number of windows. I got 6. It has to adjacent.

GRRG
RGRR
RRGR
GRRG
Well then you're wrong.

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Indiana

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Originally posted by Knight Square
Well this question was in a test I did. All the rooms have to have windows. The corners of the rooms cannot have windows, What is the least number of windows. I got 6. It has to adjacent.

GRRG
RGRR
RRGR
GRRG
you cant even moniter your own post and see that 2 other people have less gardens in their diagram than yours does. and mine and strokem1's are both correct.

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Palmerston North

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It was just a statement

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