2026 AMC 10A Problem 17AMC 10 Step by Step
Name: Date: November 10, 2026
Quadrilaterals & Polygon Areas · difficulty 4 of 5 · about 7 min · position P16-20
For each edge of a regular hexagon with side length , a square is constructed inside the hexagon with that edge as one of its sides. The region interior to all six squares is the interior of a smaller hexagon, shown shaded in the figure below.
The area of the smaller hexagon can be expressed in the form , where and are all positive integers, and are relatively prime, and is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is ?
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