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UKMT Pink Kangaroo, 2019

Geometry Difficulty 2.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

The diagram shows a net of an octahedron. When this is folded to form the octahedron, which of the labelled line segments will coincide with the line segment labelled xx?

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