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Problem

A boy is playing on a \(4\times10\) board. He is trying to put 8 bishops on the board so that each cell is attacked by one of the bishops. Finally he manages to solve this problem.

(a) Can you show a possible solution?

(b) Can you do the same thing with 7 bishops?