2024 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 7
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[hide]Problem
A x
rectangle is covered without overlap by 3 shapes of tiles:
x
,
x
, and
x
, shown below. What is the minimum possible number of
x
tiles used?
(A) (B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
Solution 1
We can eliminate B, C, and D, because they are not any multiple of
. Finally, we see that there is no way to have A, so the solution is
.