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AIME 2008a Problem 15

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A square piece of paper has sides of length 100100. From each corner a wedge is cut in the following manner: at each corner, the two cuts for the wedge each start at a distance 17\sqrt{17} from the corner, and they meet on the diagonal at an angle of 60∘60^{\circ} (see the figure below). The paper is then folded up along the lines joining the vertices of adjacent cuts. When the two edges of a cut meet, they are taped together. The result is a paper tray whose sides are not at right angles to the base. The height of the tray, that is, the perpendicular distance between the plane of the base and the plane formed by the upper edges, can be written in the form mn\sqrt[n]{m}, where mm and nn are positive integers, m<1000m<1000, and mm is not divisible by the nnth power of any prime. Find m+nm+n.

Dataset text AIME 1983 to 2026. Quoted with source.

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