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An artist has divided a non-rectangular canvas into the regions shown, each of which is 8 square feet in area except for the top region which is 16 square feet. He decided to use just four colours and to fill each region with one solid colour in such a way that there would be a different colour on each side of every common border. When he checked his paint supplies he found that he had only
enough red paint to cover 24 square feet
enough yellow paint to cover 24 square feet
enough green paint to cover 16 square feet
enough blue paint to cover 8 square feet
How did he manage to complete his canvas?
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