2021 AIME I Problems/Problem 6
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
(Solution 1 with slight simplification)
Once the equations for the distance between point P and the vertices of the cube have been written. We can add the first, second, and third to receive, Subtracting the fourth equation gives, Since point , and since we scaled the answer is ~Aaryabhatta1
See also
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