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Sugar Cubes (Posted on 2002-12-24)

Three cubes of volume 1, 8, and 64 are glued together.
What is the smallest possible surface area of the resulting configuration?

-Problem taken from UNL Math Day

See The Solution Submitted by cges

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Solution-if you wanna play nitpicking

| Comment 8 of 10 |

64!

just glue one inside of each other

put the 1 insidee the 8 and those inside of the 64

:-)

Posted by Joe C on 2004-02-25 09:30:53

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