Aptitude Material Cubes and counting diagrams CHAPTER-7 CUBES AND COUNTING DIAGRAMS Examples Directions: A cube is coloured

red on all faces. It is cut into 64 smaller cubes of equal size. Now, answer the following questions based on this statement. Example 1. How many cubes have no face coloured? (a) 24 (b) 8 (c) 0 (d) 16 Example 2. How many cubes are there which have only one face coloured? (a) 4 (b) 16 (c) 24 (d) 8 Example 3. How many cubes have two red opposite face? (a) 8 (b) 16 (c) 24 (d) 0 Example 4. How many cubes have three faces coloured (a) 16 (b) 24 (c) 4 (d) 8 Solution. The given figure shows the cube coloured real on all faces, and divide into 64 smaller cubes. Here n = Side of big cube/Side of small cube = 4/1 = 4 1. Number of smaller cubes with no surface painted

= (n

2)3 = (4

2)3 = 23 = 8

2. Number of smaller cubes with one surface painted (n 2)2 6 = (4 2)2 6

= 22 6 = 24 3. Number of smaller cubes with two surface painted = (n 2) 12 = (4 2) 12

2 12 = 24 4. Number of smaller cubes with three surfaces painted = 8 Exercise 20 Directions: A wooden cube is painted blue on all the four adjoining sides and gr een on two opposite sides, i.e., top and bottom. It is then cut at equal distanc es at right angles four times vertically (top to bottom) and two times horizonta lly (along the sides) as shown in the figure, where the dotted lines represents the cuts made. Study diagram and answer the following questions: 1. How many cubes will have one face painted only in Blue? (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) 4 (d) 3 2. How many cubes will have one face painted only in Green? (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4 3. How many cubes arte formed in all ? (a) 24 (b) 27 (c) 32 (d) 16 4. How many cubes will have at least three sides painted.

(a) 6 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 8 5. How many cubes will have no face painted at all ? (a) 5 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 2 Directions: A cube is coloured red on two opposite faces. Blue on two adjacent f aces and yellow on the two remaining faces. It is then cut into two halves along the plane parallel to the red faces. One piece is then cut into four equal cube s and the other one into 32 equal cubes. 6. How man cubes do not have any coloured face? (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) 0 7. How many cubes do not have any red face? (a) 16 (b) 8 (c) 24 (d) 20 8. How many cubes have at least two coloured faces? (a) 20 (b) 24 (c) 28 (d) 32 9. How many cubes have each a yellow face with other faces blank? (a) 16

(b) 14 (c) 17 (d) 4 10. How many cubes have at least one blue face? (a) 14 (b) 16 (c) 20 (d) 4 Directions: A cube is painted red on two adjacent faces and black on the faces o pposite to the red faces and green on the remaining faces is cut into sixty-four smaller cubes of equal size. 11. How many cubes are there which have no face painted? (a) 0 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) 16 12. How many cubes have only one face painted? (a) 8 (b) 16 (c) 24 (d) 32 13. How many cubes have less then three faces painted? (a) 8 (b) 24 (c) 28 (d) 48 14. How many cubes are there with three faces painted ? (a) 8 (b) 16

(c) 4 (d) 24 15. How many cubes have one face green and one of the adjacent faces black or re d ? (a) 8 (b) 16 (c) 24 (d) 28 Direction: A cube is painted red on two adjacent faces and on one opposite face, yellow on two opposite faces and green on the remaining face. It is then cut in to 64 equal cubes. 16. How many cubes have only one red coloured face? (a) 8 (b) 4 (c) 16 (d) 12 Directions: A solid cube has been painted yellow, blue and black on pairs of opp osite face. The cube is the cut into 36 smaller cubes such that 32 cubes are of the same size while 4 others are of bigger size. Also no face of any of the bigg er cubes is painted blue. 17. How many cubes have at least one face painted blue. (a) 0 (b) 8 (c) 16 (d) 32 18. How many cubes have only one face painted. (a) 12 (b) 8 (c) 4 (d) 0 19. How many cubes have at least two faces painted. (a) 8

(b) 16 (c) 20 (d) 24 20. How many cubes have two or more faces painted. (a) 36 (b) 34 (c) 28 (d) 24 21. How many cubes only three faces painted? (a) 8 (b) 4 (c) 2 (d) 0 22. How many cubes do not have any of their faces painted yellow? (a) 0 (b) 8 (c) 16 (d) 20 23. How many cubes have at least one of their faces painted black ? (a) 0 (b) 8 (c) 16 (d) 20 24. How many cubes have at least one of their faces painted yellow or blue? (a) 36 (b) 32 (c) 16

(d) 0 25. How many cubes have no face painted? (a) 0 (b) 8 (c) 12 (d) 16 26. How many cubes have two faces painted yellow and black respectively? (a) 0 (b) 8 (c) 12 (d) 16 Directions: A cube is painted blue on all faces is cut into 125 cubes of equal s ize. Now, answer the following questions 27. How many cubes are not painted on any face? (a) 8 (b) 16 (c) 18 (d) 27 28. How many cubes are painted on one face only? (a) 8 (b) 16 (c) 36 (d) 54 Directions :A cuboid of dimensions (4 cm x 3 cm x 3 cm). The block is painted ye llow on the pair of opposite surfaces of dimensions (4 cm x 3 cm). Remaining two opposite surfaces of dimensions (4 cm x 3 cm) are painted red. And two surfaces of dimensions (3 cm x 3 cm) are painted with green colours. Now the block is di vided among cubes of dimensions (1 cm x 1 cm 1 cm)? 29. How many smaller cubes will have one surface painted? (a) 16 (b) 12

(c) 14 (d) 18 30. How many cubes will have no surfaces painted? (a) 1 (b) 4 (c) 2 (d) 8 31. In how many cubes all the three colours appear? (a) 24 (b) 20 (c) 8 (d) 16 32. How many cubes will have only two surfaces painted ? (a) 12 (b) 16 (c) 20 (d) 32 33. How many cubes will have at least one surface painted? (a) 32 (b) 18 (c) 24 (d) None of these Directions: A solid cube each side 8 cm has been painted red, blue and black on pairs of opposite faces. It is then cut into cubical block of each side 2 cm. 34. How many cubes have no face painted? (a) 0 (b) 4 (c) 8

(d) 12 35. How many cubes have only one face painted? (a) 8 (b) 16 (c) 24 (d) 28 36. How many cubes have only two faces? (a) 8 (b) 16 (c) 20 (d) 24 37. How many cubes have three faces painted? (a) 0 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 8 38. How many cubes have three faces painted with different colours? (a) 0 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) 12 39. How many cubes have two faces painted red and black and all other faces unpa inted? (a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 16 (d) 32 40. How many cubes have only one face painted red and all other faces unpainted

? (a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 12 (d) 16 41. How many cubes have two faces painted black? (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) None 42. How many cubes have one face painted blue and one face painted red? (the other faces may be painted or unpainted): (a) 16 (b) 12 (c) 8 (d) 0 43. How many cubes are there in all? (a) 64 (b) 56 (c) 40 (d) 32 Directions: The six faces of a cube are coloured black brown, green, red ,white and blue, such that: (i) Red is opposite black (ii) Green is between red and black (iii) Blue is adjacent to White (iv) Brown is adjacent to blue (v) Red is at the bottom. Answer the following questions based on this information.

44. Which colour is opposite brown? (a) White (b) Red (c) Green (d) Blue 45. The four adjacent colours are (a) Black, Blue, Brown, Red (b) Black, Blue, Brown, White (c) Black, Blue, Red, White (d) Black, Brown, Red, White 46. Which of the following can be deduced from (i) and (iv) (a) Black in on the top (b) Blue is on the top (c) Brown is on the top (d) Brown is opposite Black