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Combinatorics Difficulty 2.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

A rectangle is divided into 40 identical squares. The rectangle contains more than one row of squares. Andrew coloured all the squares in the middle row. How many squares did he not colour?

(A) $20$ (B) $30$ (C) $32$ (D) $35$ (E) $39$

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