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Problem
A cube is composed of twenty-seven
cubes. The big cube is ‘tunneled’ as follows: First, the six
cubes which make up the center of each face as well as the center
cube are removed. Second, each of the twenty remaining
cubes is diminished in the same way. That is, the center facial unit cubes as well as each center cube are removed. The surface area of the final figure is:
Solution
Solution 1
Each cube has eight faces on each side, for a surface area of
on the outside. Each face also has to count the surface area in the inside area of the removed cube, for an additional surface area of
. Thus the total surface area for each
is
.
There are of these cubes, for an area of
. However, many of the cubes share a common face; each corner
cube has three hidden faces and each edge cube has two hidden faces, for a total of
hidden faces. Each hidden face has a surface area of
, so the surface area of the final figure is
.
Solution 2
After the first step, twenty cubes remain, with
corner cubes and
edge cubes. Each one of these
corner cubes contributes
square units of area, and each edge cube contributes
square units of area.
The second stage takes away square units of area (
for each exposed face) from each of the eight
corner cubes, and adds an additional
more units from the center facial cubes removed. Similarly, the twelve
edge cubes each lose
square nits but gain
units. Thus, the total surface area is
See also
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Followed by Problem 28 | |
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