AIME 2001b Problem 12
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Given a triangle, its midpoint triangle is obtained by joining the midpoints of its sides. A sequence of polyhedra is defined recursively as follows: is a regular tetrahedron whose volume is 1. To obtain , replace the midpoint triangle of every face of by an outward-pointing regular tetrahedron that has the midpoint triangle as a face. The volume of is , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
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