Grade 6SuperchallengeQuadrants
Quadrants · Superchallenge problem
In a town whose streets form a grid, Mia's house is at the corner and her school is at the corner . She walks only along the streets. She wants to stop at a shop on the way, and the trip house shop school should be no longer than the shortest walk straight from house to school. Shops are only at street corners (points with whole-number coordinates). How many street corners, not counting the house and the school themselves, would work for the shop?