Regular dodecagon has unit sides, and diagonals , , , , , and are drawn as shown.
Triangles , , and are cut out and discarded. Trapezoids , , and are folded up along diagonals , , and respectively so that meets , meets , and meets , forming a truncated pyramid with as its base.
If the height of the truncated pyramid is , where both and are square free positive integers, find .
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Angles ∠ A E D and ∠ I E F are both 4 5 degrees, so consider a right angled pyramid of 3 edges of length 1 meeting at the apex, and an equilateral triangle base of side 2 . The height of this pyramid is 3 1