HMMT 二月 2004 · COMB 赛 · 第 2 题

英文解析

2. How many ways can you mark 8 squares of an 8 × 8 chessboard so that no two markedsquares are in the same row or column, and none of the four corner squares is marked?
   (Rotations and reflections are considered different.)
   Solution: 21600
   In the top row, you can mark any of the 6 squares that is not a corner. In thebottom row, you can then mark any of the 5 squares that is not a corner and notin the same column as the square just marked. Then, in the second row, you have
   6 choices for a square not in the same column as either of the two squares alreadymarked; then there are 5 choices remaining for the third row, and so on down to 1
   for the seventh row, in which you make the last mark. Thus, altogether, there are
   6 · 5 · (6 · 5 · · · 1) = 30 · 6! = 30 · 720 = 21600 possible sets of squares.