Resistor Pyramid

Electricity and Magnetism Level 3

Jo has 8 identical resistors with resistance $r$ . He decides to build a Resistor Pyramid for his Physics project. Being a curious boy, he tries to find out the equivalent resistance between $A$ and $B$ using his ohmmeter. Find the equivalent resistance that the ohmmeter shows up when $r = 1 \Omega$ .

If the resistance can be expressed in the form of $\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}$ , where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ care coprime positive integers, submit your answer as $\alpha + \beta$ .

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