UPSC Prelims 2025 · CSAT (Paper 2) · Q15
General Mental Ability
Hard · Cube cutting and painting
A solid cube is painted red on all its faces. The cube is then cut into 48 smaller but equal pieces by making the minimum number of cuts. Which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. The minimum number of cuts is 8.
2. The number of smaller pieces which are not painted on any face is 4.
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