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Rooks Threatening Each Other

Source: Iran 3rd round 2013- Combinatorics exam problem 2

September 18, 2014
modular arithmeticcombinatorics unsolvedcombinatorics

Problem Statement

How many rooks can be placed in an n×nn\times n chessboard such that each rook is threatened by at most 2k2k rooks? (15 points) Proposed by Mostafa Einollah zadeh