CUBES

CLASS EXERCISE 1.3. How many cubes have less than three faces painted ?
Directions for questions 1 to 10 : A solid cube of each side 10 cm, (a) 44 (b) 24 (c) 48 (d) 36
has been painted red, blue and black on pairs of opposite faces. 1.4. How many cubes are there with three faces painted ?
It is then cut into cubical blocks of each side 2 cm. Answer the (a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 16 (d) 24
following questions.
1.5. How many cubes have one face green and one of the adja-
1. How many cubes have no face painted ? cent faces black or red ?
(a) 12 (b) 10 (c) 8 (d) 27 (a) 8 (b) 16 (c) 24 (d) 28
2. How many cubes have only one face painted? 1.6. The sides of a cube are painted in different colours. Black
(a) 54 (b) 36 (c) 24 (d) 18 side is opposite to red. White side is between black and
3. How many cubes have only two faces painted ? red. Green side is adjacent to grey and blue side is adja-
cent to green. What colour will be on the side opposite to
(a) 18 (b) 24 (c) 36 (d) 25
the white side of the cube ?
4. How many cubes have three faces painted ? (a) Blue (b) Green
(a) 0 (b) 8 (c) 12 (d) 10 (c) Grey (d) Data insufficient
5. How many cubes have three faces painted with different 1.7. A cube is colored in such a manner that its adjacent faces
colours ? are not of the same color. To do this how many minimum
(a) 0 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) 6 colors are required?
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 2
6. How many cubes have two faces painted red and black and
all other faces unpainted ? 1.8. A solid cube is made up by combining 27 small cubes of
(a) 36 (b) 24 (c) 12 (d) 0 equal size. 2 opposite faces are painted red, another pair
of opposite faces are painted yellow and the remaning
7. How many cubes have only one face painted red and all faces are painted white. How many small cubes have both
other faces unpainted ? yellow and white colors on its faces?
(a) 18 (b) 27 (c) 24 (d) 36 (a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 12 (d) 16
8. How many cubes have two faces black ?
Type 2
(a) 27 (b) 1 (c) 3 (d) 0
Directions for questions 2.1 to 2.5 : A cube is coloured red on
9. How many cubes have one face painted blue and one face two opposite faces, blue on two adjacent faces and yellow on
painted red ? the two remaining faces. It is then cut into two halves along the
(a) 18 (b) 20 (c) 27 (d) 9 plane parallel to the red faces. One piece is then cut into four
equal cubes and the other one into 32 equal cubes :
10. How many cubes are there in all ?
Now answer the following questions based on the above.
(a) 250 (b) 240 (c) 125 (d) 200
2.1. How many cubes have each a yellow face with other faces
11. How many cubes are there in the figure given below ? blank ?
(a) 4 (b) 14 (c) 16 (d) 18
2.2. How many cubes have atleast one blue face ?
(a) 4 (b) 14 (c) 16 (d) 17
2.3. How many cubes do not have any coloured face ?

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(a) 5 (b) 10 (c) 14 (d) 15 (a) 0 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 8
2.4. How many cubes do not have any red face ?
Type 1
(a) 8 (b) 16 (c) 20 (d) 24
Directions for questions 1.1 to 1.8 : A cube painted red on two
adjacent faces and black on the faces opposite to the red faces 2.5. How many cubes have at least two coloured faces ?
and green on the remaining faces, is cut into 64 smaller cubes of (a) 20 (b) 24 (c) 28 (d) 32
equal size. Directions for questions 2.6 to 2.10 : A cuboid is painted with
1.1. How many cubes are there which have no face painted ? black color on opposite faces, red on other set of opposite faces
(a) 0 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) 16 and green on the remaining faces. This cuboid has been cut into
72 cubes in such a manner that 64 cubes all of equal size are
1.2. How many cubes have only one face painted ? samller in size as compared to 8 equal sized large cubes. The
(a) 8 (b) 4 (c) 24 (d) 32 black paint is on the smaller faces of cuboid.

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2.6. How many cubes will have only 1 face painted? 4.2. How many cubes are there in the figure given below ?
(a) 16 (b) 20 (c) 24 (d) 28
2.7. How many cubes will have only 2 faces painted?
(a) 8 (b) 16 (c) 20 (d) 24
2.8. How many cubes will have only 3 faces painted?
(a) 0 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) 24
2.9. How many cubes will have atleast 2 faces painted?
(a) 16 (b) 28 (c) 32 (d) 40
2.10. How many cubes will have no face painted?
(a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 12 (d) 32
(a) 8 (b) 9 (c) 14 (d) 15
4.3. How many cubes are there in the figure given below ?
Type 3
3.1. 6 faces of a cube are colored in the following manner,
(1) Face containing red is opposite to face containing black
(2) The green face is between red and black faces
(3) Blue colored face is adjacent to the face containing
white
(4) Brown face is adjacent to the face colored blue
(5) The face at the bottom is red
Which color is opposite to the face containing brown color?
(a) White (b) Red (c) Green (d) Blue
(a) 54 (b) 55 (c) 56 (d) 58
3.2. 6 faces of a cube are colored with colors black, brown,
4.4. How many cubes are there in the figure given below ?
green, red, white and blue.
(1) Black face is opposite to red face
(2) The green face is between red and black faces
(3) Blue colored face is adjacent to the face containing
white
(4) Brown face is adjacent to the face colored blue
(5) The face at the bottom is red
Which of the following can be deduced on the basis of the
information given:
(a) Black face is at the top
(b) Blue face is at the top
(c) Brown face is at the top
(d) Face opposite to black is brown

(a) 24 (b) 25 (c) 26 (d) 27

Type 4

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4.1. How many cubes are there in the figure given below ? 4.5. Twenty-seven cubes are arranged in a block as shown be-
low. How many cubes will be surrounded by other cubes
on all sides?

(a) 8 (b) 10 (c) 14 (d) 16 (a) 3 (b) 1 (c) 9 (d) 6

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