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UKMT Junior Mathematical Olympiad, 2015

Geometry Difficulty 1.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

The diagram shows an equilateral triangle inside a regular hexagon that has sides of length $14$ cm. The vertices of the triangle are midpoints of sides of the hexagon. What is the length of the perimeter of the triangle?

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