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UKMT Junior Mathematical Olympiad, 2015

Geometry Difficulty 2.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

The figure shows part of a tiling, which extends indefinitely in every direction across the whole plane. Each tile is a regular hexagon. Some of the tiles are white, the others are black. What fraction of the plane is black?

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