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UKMT Mathematical Olympiad for Girls, 2016

Geometry Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Prove it United Kingdom

The diagram shows part of a tiling of the plane by squares and equilateral triangles. Each tile has edges of length $2$ . The points $X$ and $Y$ are at the centres of square tiles. What is the distance $XY$ ?

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