Cubes
Cubes
1. A cube is painted on all faces and cut into 27 smaller cubes. How many cubes have 3 faces
painted?
Answer: 8 cubes.
2. A cube has all faces painted and is cut into 64 smaller cubes. How many cubes have exactly 2
faces painted?
Answer: 24 edge cubes.
3. A cube has all faces painted and is cut into 125 smaller cubes. How many have no paint?
Answer: 27 (inner cubes, (n-2) ^3 = 3^3 = 27
4. A cube is cut into 64 smaller cubes. How many cubes have 1 face painted?
Answer: 24 face-centre cubes.
5. A cube with 6 cm edge is cut into 1 cm edge smaller cubes. How many are there?
Answer: 6^3 =216 cubes.
6. A cube is painted on all faces and cut into 27 smaller cubes. How many have exactly 1 face
painted?
Answer: 6 face-centre cubes.
7. A cube has 8 cm edge. How many smaller 2-cm cubes can it be cut into?
Answer: (8 / 2) ^3 = 4^3 = 64
8. A cube is painted on two opposite faces and cut into 64 cubes. How many have both colours?
Answer: 16 edge cubes.
9. A cube is painted on all faces and cut into 216 cubes. How many have 3 faces painted?
Answer: 8 corner cubes.
10. A cube of edge 5-cm is painted and cut into 125 smaller cubes. How many cubes have 2 faces
painted?
Answer: 24 edge cubes.
11. A cube with edge 6-cm is painted and cut into 1-cm cubes. How many have at least 1 face
painted?
Answer: 6^3 - 4^3 = 216 - 64 = 152.
12. How many faces of a cube are adjacent to each vertex?
Answer: 3 faces.
13. A cube has 2 cm edge. How many smaller 1-cm cubes are formed?
Answer: 2^3 = 8
14. A cube has 27 smaller cubes. How many have no paint?
Answer: 1 central cube.
15. A cube with 5cm edge is painted on all sides and cut into smaller 1-cm cubes. How many cubes
have exactly 2 faces painted?
Answer: 24 edge cubes.
16. A cube of edge 2-cm is painted on all sides. How many faces are painted?
Answer: 6 faces.
17. A cube is painted on all its faces and cut into 64 smaller cubes. How many of these smaller cubes
have no paint on any face?
Answer: Only the inner cubes have no paint.
The inner part of a 4×4×4 cube has (4 - 2) ^3 = 2^3 = 8 cubes with no paint.
18. A cube is painted on all faces and then cut into 125 smaller cubes. How many of these cubes have
exactly 3 faces painted?
Answer: Only the 8 corner cubes have 3 faces painted.
19. A cube is painted on four adjacent faces and then cut into 216 smaller cubes. How many cubes
have exactly 2 faces painted?
Answer: The edge cubes shared by the 4 painted faces have 2 faces painted.
There are 12 such edges, and each edge contributes n−2=6−2=4n - 2 = 6 - 2 = 4 cubes with 2 faces
painted.
Total: 12×4 = 48 cubes.
20. A cube is painted on all faces and then cut into 64 smaller cubes. How many cubes have exactly 2
adjacent faces painted?
Answer: Edge cubes, excluding the corners, have 2 faces painted.
Total edges: 12, each contributing n−2=4−2= 2 such cubes.
Total: 12×2= 24 cubes.
21. A cube has an edge length of 10 cm and is cut into smaller cubes of 2 cm edge. How many of
these smaller cubes are there in total?
Answer: Total smaller cubes = (10/2) ^3= 125.
22. A cube is painted on only one face and then cut into 64 smaller cubes. How many of these smaller
cubes have paint on one face?
Answer: For a 4×4 painted face, only the face-centre cubes will have paint on one face.
Total: (4 - 2) ^2 = 2^2 = 4 cubes.
23. A cube is painted on two opposite faces and cut into 125 smaller cubes. How many cubes have no
paint?
Answer: Inner cubes without contact to painted faces form a (5 - 2) ^3 = 3^3 = 27 cube.
Total: 27 cubes.
24. A cube has a volume of 64 cm³ and is cut into smaller cubes of 1 cm³ each. How many faces of the
original cube were painted?
Answer: The original cube has 6 faces, all of which are painted (since this is always true for a
cube regardless of its volume).
25. A cube is divided into 64 smaller cubes, and all faces of the original cube are painted. How many
smaller cubes are painted on exactly 2 faces and belong to the same edge?
Answer: Each edge has n−2=4−2= 2 cubes painted on 2 faces.
There are 12 edges. Total: 12×2=24 cubes.