2026 AIME II Problem 12
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12.
Consider a tetrahedron with two isosceles triangle faces with side lengths and and two isosceles triangle faces with side lengths and The four vertices of the tetrahedron lie on a sphere with center and the four faces of the tetrahedron are tangent to a sphere with center The distance can be written as where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Solution:
The four faces have side multiset and each edge lies on two faces, so the tetrahedron has and as opposite edges and the other four edges equal to Place which is consistent since The configuration is symmetric under and under so both centers lie on the -axis.
For equating distances to and gives so For face has plane and face has plane so equal distances require and by the two mirror symmetries this point is equidistant (at distance ) from all four faces.
Therefore which is in lowest terms, so
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