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Swimming further, he could feel something sucking the water out of the sea. He saw a huge `6ft × 6ft` hole dug, which was pulling all the water. He has to fill it with some `2 × 2` square tiles and some `4 × 1` rectangular tiles. After arranging the tiles to cover the lava perfectly without overlap, excess pressure caused one of the tiles to smash. Unfortunately, the only spare tile is of the other shape to the one smashed. Will Mario be able to rear- range the remaining unsmashed tiles to perfectly cover the hole again?

A

Yes

B

No

C

Yes,Only if broken tile is `4 × 1`

D

Yes,Only if broken tile is `2 × 2`

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Tip : you may look at your 3x3 numpad on the keyboard(imagine each number key is  equally divided in 4 parts) for reference of 6x6 hole.
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