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Peculiar Perimeter

Problem

From the diagram below we can see that the number of tiles on the perimeter, 16, exceeds the number of tiles on the inside, 8.


How many rectangles exist for which the number of tiles on the perimeter are equal to the number of tiles on the inside?

Problem ID: 89 (Nov 2002)     Difficulty: 3 Star

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