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Geometry Difficulty 2.8 Junior Find the answer

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 6×66 \times 6 tile. Looking closer, there is also symmetry of the top 3×33 \times 3 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 44 dark tiles, and 99 total tiles, giving a fraction of (B) 49\boxed{\text{(B)}\ \frac49}.

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