A corner of a tiled floor is shown. If the entire floor is tiled in this way and each of the four corners looks like this one, then what fraction of the tiled floor is made of darker tiles?
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Solution
The same pattern is repeated for every tile. Looking closer, there is also symmetry of the top square, so the fraction of the entire floor in dark tiles is the same as the fraction in the square. Counting the tiles, there are dark tiles, and total tiles, giving a fraction of .
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