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Dihedral Angle in a Triangular Pyramid

Source: 2016 AIME I #4

March 4, 2016
2016 AIME IAIME3D geometrygeometryprismpyramid

Problem Statement

A right prism with height hh has bases that are regular hexagons with sides of length 1212. A vertex AA of the prism and its three adjacent vertices are the vertices of a triangular pyramid. The dihedral angle (the angle between the two planes) formed by the face of the pyramid that lies in a base of the prism and the face of the pyramid that does not contain AA measures 60∘60^\circ. Find h2h^2.