GAUSS8 2000 Problem 23

A square floor is tiled, as partially shown, with a large number of regular hexagonal tiles. The tiles are colored blue or white. Each blue tile is surrounded by 6 white tiles and each white tile is surrounded by 3 white and 3 blue tiles. Ignoring part tiles, the ratio of the number of blue tiles to the number of white tiles is closest to

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Answer Choices
A. 1:6
B. 2:3
C. 3:10
D. 1:4
E. 1:2