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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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| Comment 6 of 10 |

I don´t know if the face at the bottom counts, but if it doesn't, the smallest area I found was 90 square units. If the bottom faces count, the smallest ares would be 111 square units

Posted by Antonio on 2003-08-22 02:09:03

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