Problem #88 MEDIUM
The Ant on a Cube
Amazon Adobe Geometry Math
Problem Statement
An ant sits at one corner of a solid cube. It wants to reach the corner diagonally opposite (the farthest corner). The ant can only walk along the surface of the cube, not through the interior. If the cube has side length 1, what is the shortest path the ant can walk along the surface? Describe the path and prove it is optimal.
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