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just put 2 adjacent sides of the room, along which the fly will travel, flat together as a rectangle.

The diagonal of this rectangle then could be, depending on the position of the fly, sqrt[(3+4)^2 + 5^2] or sqrt[3^2 + (4+5)^2] or sqrt[4^2 + (3+5)^2]

These respectively are equal to sqrt(74), sqrt(90) and sqrt(80)

So the shortest is sqrt(74) m


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