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Revision as of 01:32, 12 March 2021
Problem
Segments and
are edges of a cube and
is a diagonal through the center of the cube. Point
satisfies
and
. What is
?
Solution
First scale down the whole cube by 12. Let point P have coordinates , A have coordinates
, and
be the side length. Then we have the equations
These simplify into
Adding the first three equations together, we get
.
Subtracting these, we get
, so
. This means
. However, we scaled down everything by 12 so our answer is
.
~JHawk0224
See also
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