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Combinatorics Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Prove it United Kingdom

Charlie chooses one cell from a blank $n \times n$ square grid and shades it. The resulting grid has no lines of symmetry. In terms of $n$ , how many different cells could be shaded?

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