There is a set of cubes of three different colors: red, blue and yellow and their edges are of integer length.

In the following statements the bold capital letters refer to specific digits with a one-to-one correspondence of digit to letter.

The volume of each red cube is NIL.
The face of each blue cube has NO area.
The volume of each yellow cube is ZERO.
The total volume of all the cubes is NOTHING.

There are NO cubes of one of the colors, and NONE of another.

How many cubes are there of the remaining color, and what is that color?

There are 21413 cubes of the remaining color, and that color is blue.

Edited on November 10, 2007, 4:55 am

Posted by K Sengupta on 2007-11-10 04:31:02