Sunday 13 April 2014

geometry - Tiling rectangles with U pentomino plus rectangles


Inspired by Polyomino Z pentomino and rectangle packing into rectangle


Also in this series: Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles


Tiling rectangles with N pentomino plus rectangles


Tiling rectangles with T pentomino plus rectangles



Tiling rectangles with V pentomino plus rectangles


Tiling rectangles with W pentomino plus rectangles


Tiling rectangles with X pentomino plus rectangles


The goal is to tile rectangles as small as possible with the U pentomino. Of course this is impossible, so we allow the addition of copies of a rectangle. For each rectangle $a\times b$, find the smallest area larger rectangle that copies of $a\times b$ plus at least one U-pentomino will tile. Example shown, with the $1\times 1$, you can tile a $2\times 3$ as follows:


U plus 1x1


Now we don't need to consider $1\times 1$ any longer as we have found the smallest rectangle tilable with copies of U plus copies of $1\times 1$.


There are at least 6 more solutions. I tagged it 'computer-puzzle' but you can certainly work some of these out by hand. The larger ones might be a bit challenging.



Answer



Here is a way to tile a




6x13 = 78



rectangle with U pentominoes and 1x4 rectangles, which is an improvement over @athin's 9x10 solution:



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As a bonus, here are two suboptimal solutions, one of which is asymmetric:



link to two 11x8 = 88 solutions




For 1x5:



12x20 = 240

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for 1x6:



14x24 = 336

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and for 3x4:




19x40 = 760

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