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prealgebra senior

Problem

The grid shown contains a collection of squares with sizes from to . How many of these squares contain the black center square?

problem
Solution
All of the squares of size , , and contain the black square and there are of these. In addition, 4 of the squares and 1 of the squares contain the black square, for a total of .
Final answer
19