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MathNet 2021 — Part 04 Question 72

Math Olympiad Vault · MathNet 2021 — Part 04

Question 72

Leo the fox has a $5$ by $5$ checkerboard grid with alternating red and black squares. He fills in the grid with the numbers $1,2,3, \ldots, 25$ such that any two consecutive numbers are in adjacent squares (sharing a side) and each number is used exactly once. He then computes the sum of the numbers in the $13$ squares that are the same color as the center square. Compute the maximum possible sum Leo can obtain.