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Combinatorics Difficulty 5.0 AIME, harder Prove it United Kingdom

A tiling of an n×nn \times n square grid is formed using 4×14 \times 1 tiles. What are the possible values of nn? [A tiling has no gaps or overlaps, and no tile goes outside the region being tiled.]

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