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2022 AMC 12B Problem 25

Four regular hexagons surround a square with a side length $1$ , each one sharing an edge with the square, as shown in the figure below. The area of the resulting $12$ -sided outer nonconvex polygon can be written as $m\sqrt{n} + p$ , where $m$ , $n$ , and $p$ are integers and $n$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is $m + n + p$ ?

[asy] import geometry; unitsize(3cm); draw((0,0) -- (1,0) -- (1,1) -- (0,1) -- cycle); draw(shift((1/2,1-sqrt(3)/2))*polygon(6)); draw(shift((1/2,sqrt(3)/2))*polygon(6)); draw(shift((sqrt(3)/2,1/2))*rotate(90)*polygon(6)); draw(shift((1-sqrt(3)/2,1/2))*rotate(90)*polygon(6)); draw((0,1-sqrt(3))--(1,1-sqrt(3))--(3-sqrt(3),sqrt(3)-2)--(sqrt(3),0)--(sqrt(3),1)--(3-sqrt(3),3-sqrt(3))--(1,sqrt(3))--(0,sqrt(3))--(sqrt(3)-2,3-sqrt(3))--(1-sqrt(3),1)--(1-sqrt(3),0)--(sqrt(3)-2,sqrt(3)-2)--cycle,linewidth(2)); [/asy]

$\textbf{(A) } -12 \qquad \textbf{(B) }-4 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 4 \qquad \textbf{(D) }24 \qquad \textbf{(E) }32$

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Category: AMC 12B
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