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A cube has all its faces painted with different colours. It is cut into smaller cubes of one-fourth size of big one...

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A cube has all its faces painted with different colours. It is cut into smaller cubes of equal sizes such that the side of the small cube is one-fourth the big cube. The number of small cubes with only one of the sides painted is-

posted Aug 8, 2018 by anonymous

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Each face of the big cube will be split into 4x4=16. 12 out of 16 will have more than one side painted. only middle 4 cubes will be one-side painted. Total number of them will be 4 per each face, so 4x6=24 small cubes.

answer Aug 8, 2018 by Hanifa Mammadov



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