HMMT 2012 U28
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Alice is sitting in a teacup ride with infinitely many layers of spinning disks. The largest disk has radius 5. Each succeeding disk has its center attached to a point on the circumference of the previous disk and has a radius equal to of the previous disk. Each disk spins around its center (relative to the disk it is attached to) at a rate of radians per second. Initially, at , the centers of the disks are aligned on a single line, going outward. Alice is sitting at the limit point of all these disks. After 12 seconds, what is the length of the trajectory that Alice has traced out?
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18 \pi
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