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Question 57·Hard·Geometry and Trigonometry

A cube has side length 2p2p, where pp is a positive constant. From each of the cube’s eight vertices, a pyramid is removed by slicing the cube with a plane that passes through the midpoints of the three edges that meet at that vertex.

After all eight identical pyramids are removed, what fraction of the cube’s original volume remains?

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