Red and Black Tiles

A rectangular floor is covered with 315 red and black tiles. There is a border of single black tiles round the edge of the floor, and inside that a pattern of 2 interlocking black squares which do not touch the border in any place.
A rectangle with 2 interlocking squares

The sides of these black squares are 6 tiles long, set diagonally.

How many of the 315 tiles are black?




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