SOLUTION: explain how you can find the number of three colored cubes needed for an n x n x n cube

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Question 181572: explain how you can find the number of three colored cubes needed for an n x n x n cube
Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


No matter what the dimensions of the large cube, the only constituent cubes that would require three colors are those at the vertices of the cube. A cube always has 8 vertices.


John


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