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AIME 2002a Problem 11

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Let ABCDABCD and BCFGBCFG be two faces of a cube with AB=12AB=12. A beam of light emanates from vertex AA and reflects off face BCFGBCFG at point PP, which is 7 units from BG‾\overline{BG} and 5 units from BC‾\overline{BC}. The beam continues to be reflected off the faces of the cube. The length of the light path from the time it leaves point AA until it next reaches a vertex of the cube is given by mnm\sqrt{n}, where mm and nn are integers and nn is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find m+nm+n.

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