Mark M. answered 02/09/16
Mathematics Teacher - NCLB Highly Qualified
Samaria B.
asked 02/09/16
Mark M. answered 02/09/16
Mathematics Teacher - NCLB Highly Qualified
David W. answered 02/09/16
Experienced Prof
Just to "get the picture," imagine a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube. How many ways can the cube be cut to produce a 3x3 grid to play tic tac toe? 3+3+3 parallel to faces and 6 that look like "half-X" on the faces. O.K. 15. Then, there are the cube corner-to-opposite-corner that are not on any of those planes.
For each grid, there are 8 possible solutions (3 rows, 3 columns, 2 diagonal).
On 9+6=15 planes, we have 15*8 = 120 ways to win with a 3-D tic tac toe cube. Plus the slant diagonals.
Now, some of these are duplicates! You need to determine how to reduce this count.
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