There are two types of tile to tile a floor. One is a square tile by and the other is a rectangular tile by . The floor is long by wide. It is to be completely tiled with no gaps, none of them overlapping and none going outside the edges of the floor using the minimum number of tiles possible.
Demonstrate how to do this and prove that it cannot be done with fewer tiles.
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