MAA MinuteMath: January 2, 2009

Friday, January 2, 2009

January 2, 2009

A wooden cube n units on a side is painted red on all six faces and then cut into n³ unit cubes. Exactly one-fourth of the total number of faces of the unit cubes are red. What is n?

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