Problem

Source: China Girls Mathematical Olympiad 2009, Problem 7

Tags: geometry, geometric transformation, rotation, analytic geometry, combinatorics unsolved, combinatorics



On a $ 10 \times 10$ chessboard, some $ 4n$ unit squares are chosen to form a region $ \mathcal{R}.$ This region $ \mathcal{R}$ can be tiled by $ n$ $ 2 \times 2$ squares. This region $ \mathcal{R}$ can also be tiled by a combination of $ n$ pieces of the following types of shapes (see below, with rotations allowed). Determine the value of $ n.$


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