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Tags: geometry, rectangle, combinatorics proposed, combinatorics



For $n>2$, an $n\times n$ grid of squares is coloured black and white like a chessboard, with its upper left corner coloured black. Then we can recolour some of the white squares black in the following way: choose a $2\times 3$ (or $3\times 2$) rectangle which has exactly $3$ white squares and then colour all these $3$ white squares black. Find all $n$ such that after a series of such operations all squares will be black.