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AIME 1997 Problem 15

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The sides of rectangle ABCDABCD have lengths 1010 and 1111. An equilateral triangle is drawn so that no point of the triangle lies outside ABCDABCD. The maximum possible area of such a triangle can be written in the form pq−rp\sqrt{q}-r, where pp, qq, and rr are positive integers, and qq is not divisible by the square of any prime number. Find p+q+rp+q+r.

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