document.write( "Question 1137885: All of the faces of a rectangular block are painted red. The rectangular block is cut into unit cubes with a volume of 1 cm3 each. It is known that there are 30 unit cubes with none of their faces painted red and x unit cubes each with exactly two faces painted red.\r
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document.write( "Find the sum of all possible values of x. \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #755757 by greenestamps(13200)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! \n" ); document.write( "Let the dimensions of the rectangular block be (a+2), (b+2), and (c+2). Then the unit cubes with no faces painted form a block with dimensions a, b, and c. \n" ); document.write( "The number of cubes with no faces painted is to be 30, so the product abc is equal to 30. There are 5 sets of integer dimensions with that product: \n" ); document.write( "1x1x30 \n" ); document.write( "1x2x15 \n" ); document.write( "1x3x10 \n" ); document.write( "1x5x6 \n" ); document.write( "2x3x5 \n" ); document.write( "On the rectangular block, the unit cubes with 2 faces painted are on the edges, but not on the corners. There are 12 edges on a rectangular solid. In our rectangular solid with dimensions (a+2), (b+2), and (c+2), there are 4 edges with length a (not counting the corners), 4 edges with length b (not counting the corners), and 4 edges with length c (not counting the corners). \n" ); document.write( "So, given the dimensions a, b, and c of the block of unit cubes with no faces painted, the number of units cubes with 2 faces painted is 4(a+b+c). \n" ); document.write( "With the analysis of the problem complete, we now just plug in numbers to find the answer to the problem. \r\n" ); document.write( "(1) abc = 1*1*30 --> 4(a+b+c) = 4(32) = 128\r\n" ); document.write( "(2) abc = 1*2*15 --> 4(a+b+c) = 4(18) = 72\r\n" ); document.write( "(3) abc = 1*3*10 --> 4(a+b+c) = 4(14) = 56\r\n" ); document.write( "(4) abc = 1*5*6 --> 4(a+b+c) = 4(12) = 48\r\n" ); document.write( "(5) abc = 2*3*5 --> 4(a+b+c) = 4(10) = 40\r\n" ); document.write( " -----\r\n" ); document.write( " 344 \n" ); document.write( "ANSWER: 344 \n" ); document.write( " |