1090.75 – Fly on the Cube


A wooden cube as edges of length 10cm. If a fly starts at a vertex and walks along edges only, what is the greatest distance it can walk before coming to a vertex for the second time and without retracing an edge?

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Solution

The answer is 80cm. One route is in the figure below.

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