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GULF 2012 Problem 3

    Consider a 3×73\times7 grid of squares. Each square may be coloured green or white.

    [list] (a) Is it possible to find a colouring so that no subrectangle has all four corner squares of the same colour? (b) Is it possible for a 4×64\times 6 grid? [/list]

    Subrectangles must have their corners at grid-points of the original diagram. The corner squares of a subrectangle must be different. The original diagram is a subrectangle of itself.

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