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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2022🎓 HS🔄 Round 8#️⃣ Question 13🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

The moment of inertia of a uniform solid tetrahedron about an axis passing through a vertex and the center of mass is ms^2/20, where m is the mass and s is the side length. The moment of inertia about an axis parallel to the initial axis but passing through a different vertex is xms^2, where x is a dimensionless factor. Expressed as a fraction, what is the value of x?

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