Tiling Rectangles with Rectangles
Geometry
Level
3
True or False?
Whenever a rectangle is tiled by rectangles all of which have at least one side of integer length, then the tiled rectangle has at least one side of integer length.
False
True
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1 solution
This is a fairly well-known result. Stan Wagon wrote a paper on it in 1987: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/mat208/fourteen.pdf