1985 AIME Problems/Problem 15
Problem
Three 12 cm 12 cm squares are each cut into two pieces and , as shown in the first figure below, by joining the midpoints of two adjacent sides. These six pieces are then attached to a regular hexagon, as shown in the second figure, so as to fold into a polyhedron. What is the volume (in ) of this polyhedron?
Solution
Note that gluing two of the given polyhedra together along a hexagonal face (rotated from each other) yields a cube, so the volume is .