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You have a 5 x 5 chess board. You must place 5 queens so that you can place three pawns on the board and they will not be taken.


Solution:

In (row, column) format

Queens:
(1,3)
(2,1)
(1,4)
(3,1)
(2,4)

Pawns:
(4,5)
(5,5)
(5,2)

 

The board can also be rotated for all of the different positions.

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