Question 231458
27 cubes glued together to form a larger cube.


The big cube is formed from 3 little cubes on each side.


3 * 3 * 3 = 27 little cubes.


There is 1 cube in the middle with no faces exposed.
There are 8 cubes on the corners with 3 faces exposed.
There are 12 cubes on the edges with 2 faces exposed.
There are 6 cubes in the middle of each side of the big cube that have only 1 face exposed.


All the exposed faces have been painted pink.


The product of the number of cubes with 1 pink face and the number of cubes with 3 pink faces would be:


8 * 6 = 48