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1980 AHSME Problem 26

Four balls of radius 1 are mutually tangent, three resting on the floor and the fourth resting on the others. A tetrahedron, each of whose edges have length s, is circumscribed around the balls. Then s equals

\text{(A)} \ 4\sqrt 2 \qquad \text{(B)} \ 4\sqrt 3 \qquad \text{(C)} \ 2\sqrt 6 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 1+2\sqrt 6\qquad \text{(E)}\ 2+2\sqrt 6


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