AIME 2002a Problem 11
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Let and be two faces of a cube with . A beam of light emanates from vertex and reflects off face at point , which is 7 units from and 5 units from . The beam continues to be reflected off the faces of the cube. The length of the light path from the time it leaves point until it next reaches a vertex of the cube is given by , where and are integers and is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find .
Dataset text AIME 1983 to 2026. Quoted with source.
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