Question 7
A beaver has the four tiles below, each made of unit squares of area 1.
It wants to place them without overlap in a rectangular box. What is the smallest possible area of the base?
Editorial packing convention: align the tiles with the unit-square grid; rotations by 90° are allowed.
It wants to place them without overlap in a rectangular box. What is the smallest possible area of the base?
Editorial packing convention: align the tiles with the unit-square grid; rotations by 90° are allowed.