MAA MinuteMath: November 3, 2008

Monday, November 3, 2008

November 3, 2008

Jamie counted the number of edges of a cube, Jimmy counted the number of corners, and Judy counted the number of faces. They then added the three numbers. What was the resulting sum?

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