The diagram shows one solution. In this case, we have 1x4 = 2x2 and we have used the tiles [1,2] and [2,4]. Any solution that is a rearrangement of the same pair of tiles is ignored - we are just interested in which tiles are used.
How many distinct pairs of tiles will solve the above problem?
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