15 CUBE TEST

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TERMINOLOGIES
Natural Numbers, Whole numbers, Predecessor, Successor, Face value, Place value, Indian system,
International system, Estimation, Roman numerals

Introduction

A. CUBES

A cube is three dimensional figure, having 8 corners, 6 surfaces and 12 edges. If a cube is painted on all
of its surfaces with any colour and further divided into various smaller cubes, we get following results.
Smaller cubes with three surfaces painted will be present on the corners of the big cube.

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 Smaller cubes with two surface painted will be present on the edges of the big cube. Smaller cubes with
one surface painted will be present on the surfaces of the big cube. Smaller cubes with no surface
painted will be present inside the big cube.
If a cube is painted on all of its surfaces with a colour and then divided into smaller cubes of equal size
then after separation, number of smaller cubes so obtained will be calculated as under :
Number of smaller cubes with three surfaces painted = 8
Number of smaller cubes with two surfaces painted = (n – 2) × 12
Number of smaller cubes with one surfaces painted = (n – 2)2 × 6
Number of smaller cubes with no surfaces painted = (n – 2)3
Where n = No of divisions on the surfaces of the bigger cube
= lengthof edgeof bigcube
lengthof edgeof onesmaller cube

A. TYPE-I

If a cube is painted on all of its surfaces with single colour and then divided into various smaller cubes
of equal size.

Solved Examples

Directions : ( 1 to 4) A cube of side 4 cm is painted black on all of its surfaces and then divided into various
smaller cubes of side 1 cm each. The smaller cubes so obtained are separated.
Total cubes of obtained =
444 =64
111

Here n = sideof bigcube = 4 =4

sideof small cube 1
Example. 1 How many smaller cubes have three surfaces painted ?
(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 16 (D) 24
Solution : (B) Number of smaller cubes with three surfaces painted = 8

Example. 2 How many smaller cubes have two surfaces painted ?

(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 16 (D) 24
Solution : (D) Number of smaller cubes with two surfaces painted = (n – 2) × 12 = (4 – 2) × 12 = 24

Example. 3 How many smaller cubes have only one surface painted ?
(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 24 (D) 32
Solution : (C) Number of smaller cubes with one surface painted = (n – 2)2 × 6 = (4 – 2)2 × 6= 4 × 6 = 24

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Example. 4 How many smaller cubes will have no side painted ?
(A) 18 (B) 16 (C) 22 (D) 8
Solution : (D) Number of smaller cubes with no surface painted = (n – 2)3 = (4 – 2)3 = (2)3 = 8

B. TYPE-II

If a cube is painted on all of its surfaces with different colours and then divided into various smaller
cubes of equal size.

Directions : ( 5 to 7 ) A cube of side 4 cm is painted black on the pair of one opposite surfaces, blue on the pair
of another opposite surfaces and red on remaining pair of opposite surfaces. The cube is now
divided into smaller cubes of equal side of 1 cm each.

Example. 5 How many smaller cubes have three surfaces painted ?

(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 16 (D) 24
Solution : (B) Number of smaller cubes with three surfaces painted = 8
(These smaller cubes will have all three surfaces painted with different colour blue, black and
red.)
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Example. 6 How many smaller cubes have two surfaces painted ?
(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 16 (D) 24
Solution : (D) Number of smaller cubes with two surfaces painted = 24. And out of this -
(a) Number of cubes with two surfaces painted with black and blue colour = 8.
(b) Number of cubes with two surfaces painted with blue and red colour = 8.
(c) Number of cubes with two surfaces painted with black and red color = 8.

Example. 7 How many smaller cubes have only one surface painted ?
(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 24 (D) 32
Solution : (C) Number of smaller cubes with one surface painted = 24. And out of this -
(a) Number of cubes with one surface painted with black colour =8.
(b) Number of cubes with one surface painted with blue colour = 8.
(c) Number of cubes with one surface painted with red colour = 8.

C. TYPE-III

If a cube is painted on its surfaces in such a way that one pair of opposite surfaces is left unpainted.

Directions : ( 8 to 11 ) A cube of side 4 cm is painted red on the pair of one opposite surfaces, green on the pair
of another opposite surfaces and one pair of opposite surfaces is left unpainted. Now the cube is
divided into 64 smaller cubes of side 1 cm each.

Example. 8 How many smaller cubes have three surfaces painted ?

(A) 0 (B) 8 (C) 16 (D) 20
Solution : (A) Number of smaller cubes with three surfaces painted = 0 (Because each smaller cube at the
corner is attached to a surface which is unpainted.)
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Example. 9 How many smaller cubes have two surfaces painted ?
(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 16 (D) 24
Solution : (C) Number of smaller cubes with two surfaces painted = Number of cubes present at the
corners + Numbers of cubes present at 4 edges
= 8 + (n – 2) × 4 = 8 + 8 = 16

Example. 10 How many smaller cubes have only one surface painted ?
(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 24 (D) 32
Solution (D) Number of smaller cubes with one surface painted = Number of cubes present at the 8
edges + number of cubes present at the four surfaces= (n – 2) × 8 + (n – 2)2 × 4
= 2 × 8 + 4 × 4 = 16 + 16 = 32

Example. 11 How many smaller cubes will have no side painted ?

(A) 18 (B) 16 (C) 22 (D) 8
Solution : (B) Number of smaller cubes with no side painted
= Number of cubes on the two unpainted surfaces + number of cubes present inside the cube.
= (n – 2)2 × 2 + (n – 2)3 = 4 × 2 + (2)3 = 8 + 8 = 16.

EXERCISE # 1

Directions : (1 to 5) A cube is coloured orange on one face, pink on the opposite face, brown on one face and
silver on a face adjacent to the brown face. The other two faces are left uncoloured. It is then cut into
125 smaller cubes of equal size. Now answer the following questions based on the above statements.

1. How many cubes have at least one face coloured pink ?

(A) 1 (B) 9 (C) 16 (D) 25

2. How many cubes have all the faces uncoloured ?

(A) 24 (B) 36 (C) 48 (D) 64

3. How many cubes have at least two faces coloured ?

(A) 19 (B) 20 (C) 21 (D) 23

4. How many cubes are coloured orange on one face and have the remaining faces uncoloured ?
(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 14 (D) 16

5. How many cubes one coloured silver on one face, orange or pink on another face and have four
uncoloured faces ?
(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 16

Directions : (6 to 11) A cube is painted red on two adjacent surfaces and black on the surfaces opposite to red
surfaces and green on the remaining faces. Now the cube is cut into sixty four smaller cubes of equal size.

6. How many smaller cubes have only one surface painted ?

(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 24 (D) 32

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7. How many smaller cubes will have no surface painted ?
(A) 0 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 16

8. How many smaller cubes have less than three surfaces painted ?
(A) 8 (B) 24 (C) 28 (D) None of these

9. How many smaller cubes have three surfaces painted ?

(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 16 (D) 24

10. How many smaller cubes with two surfaces painted have one face green and one of the adjacent faces
black or red ?
(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 24 (D) 28

11. How many smaller cubes have at least one surface painted with green colour ?
(A) 8 (B) 24 (C) 32 (D) 56
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Directions : (12 to 16) A cube of 4 cm has been painted on its surfaces in such a way that two opposite surfaces
have been painted blue and two adjacent surfaces have been painted red. Two remaining surfaces have
been left unpainted. Now the cube is cut into smaller cubes of side 1 cm each.

12. How many cubes will have no side painted ?

(A) 18 (B) 16 (C) 22 (D) 8

13. How many cubes will have at least red colour on its surfaces ?
(A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 28 (D) 32

14. How many cubes will have at least blue colour on its surfaces ?
(A) 20 (B) 8 (C) 24 (D) 32

15. How many cubes will have only two surfaces painted with red and blue colour respectively ?
(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 24 (D) 30

16. How many cubes will have three surfaces coloured ?

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 2 (D) 16

EXERCISE # 2

Directions : (1 to 2) The following questions are based on a solid cube which has been shaded as shown on
pairs of opposite faces. (NTSE Stage-II,2008)

1. How many small cubes are there in the middle layer ?

(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 12

2. How many small cubes have no face with any shading ?

(A) 6 (B) 3 (C) 2 (D) 1

Directions : (3 to 6) The six faces of a cube are painted in a manner that no two adjacent faces have the same
colour. The three colours used in painting are red, blue and green. The cube is then cut into 36 smaller

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 cubes in such a manner that 32 cubes are of one size and the rest of a bigger size and each of the bigger
cubes has no red side. Answer the following questions. (NTSE Stage-I/Raj./2013)

3. How many cubes in all have a red side ?

(A) 16 (B) 32 (C) 8 (D) 20

4. How many cubes in all have only one side coloured ?

(A) 20 (B) 16 (C) 0 (D) 8

5. How many cubes are colured on three sides ?

(A) 20 (B) 16 (C) 8 (D) 0

6. How many cubes are there which have two or more sides painted?
(A) 36 (B) 28 (C) 20 (D) 32
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Direction : (7 to 8) A cube is painted blue on all faces and it is cut into 64 small cubes of equal size. Now
answer the following questions. (NTSE Stage-I/Raj./2017)

7. How many cubes are not painted on any face?

(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 27 (D) 54.

8. How many cubes are there which are painted on one face only?
(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 24 (D) 32

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Answer Key

EXERCISE # 1

Ques. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Ans. D C C D A C C D B B C A C D A C

EXERCISE # 2

Ques. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Ans. C D B D C B A C

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