The figure above depicts a rhombicuboctahedron (also called small rhombicuboctahedron). All its faces are squares and equilateral triangles of the same edge length. If the edge length is find its volume. The volume can expressed as for positive integers with coprime. Enter .
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To make a rhombicuboctahedron with unit sides, start with a unit cube, and on each its 6 faces attach a 1 × 1 × 2 2 box, and along each of its 1 2 edges attach a triangular prism with a height of 1 and legs of 2 2 , and along each of its 8 vertices attach a right tetrahedron with legs of 2 2 . The volume is then:
V rhomb = V cube + 6 ⋅ V box + 1 2 ⋅ V prism + 8 ⋅ V tetra = 1 3 + 6 ⋅ 1 ⋅ 1 ⋅ 2 2 + 1 2 ⋅ 2 1 ⋅ ( 2 2 ) 2 ⋅ 1 + 8 ⋅ 6 1 ⋅ ( 2 2 ) 3 = 4 + 3 1 0 3
Therefore, a = 4 , b = 1 0 , c = 3 , and a + b + c = 1 7 .