AMC 8 2025 - Problem 15

Kei draws a 6-by-6 grid. He colors 13 of the unit squares silver and the remaining squares gold. Kei then folds the grid in half vertically, forming pairs of overlapping unit squares. Let m and M equal the least and greatest possible number of gold-on-gold pairs, respectively. What is the value of m+M?

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