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2019 AMC 10BProblem 18P16-20~5 minPrint

Henry decides one morning to do a workout, and he walks 34\tfrac{3}{4} of the way from his home to his gym. The gym is 22 kilometers away from Henry's home. At that point, he changes his mind and walks 34\tfrac{3}{4} of the way from where he is back toward home. When he reaches that point, he changes his mind again and walks 34\tfrac{3}{4} of the distance from there back toward the gym. If Henry keeps changing his mind when he has walked 34\tfrac{3}{4} of the distance toward either the gym or home from the point where he last changed his mind, he will get very close to walking back and forth between a point AA kilometers from home and a point BB kilometers from home. What is AB|A-B| ?

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