2024 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 7
Problem
A 
rectangle is covered without overlap by 3 shapes of tiles: 
, 
, and 
, shown below. What is the minimum possible number of $1x1 tiles used?
(A)$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)1
2
3
4
5$
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 
.
