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Problem

After having a very “spiritual” conversation with her personal yoga instructor Mrs. Robinson decided to learn more about Feng shui. In her guest room there are 16 chairs and she never liked the way they are standing. She has read through some books on Feng shui and searched through the internet looking for a solution to her problem. Finally, Mrs. Robinson found a short paragraph in one of the old issues of a national magazine about health and home. In this paragraph it was explained that one has to rearrange chairs in such a way that there are exactly 5 chairs standing next to each wall. Taking into account Mrs. Robinson’s guest room has a shape of a square describe how she needs to rearrange the chairs in order to satisfy the condition. (Feng shui is a Chinese philosophical system of harmonizing everyone with the surrounding environment.