olymmath

JBMO 2008

Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad 2008.

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Problem 4

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A 4×44\times 4 table is divided into 1616 white unit square cells. Two cells are called neighbors if they share a common side. A move consists in choosing a cell and the colors of neighbors from white to black or from black to white. After exactly nn moves all the 1616 cells were black. Find all possible values of nn .

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