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JBMO 2010 Problem 4

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A 9×79 \times 7 rectangle is tiled with tiles of the two types shown in the picture below (the tiles are composed by three, respectively four unit squares and the L-shaped tiles can be rotated repeatedly with 90∘90^{\circ} ).

Let n⩾0n \geqslant 0 be the number of the 2×22 \times 2 tiles which can be used in such a tiling. Find all the values of nn.

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