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A white-colored cube has a side length of 12 cm. Its faces are painted in six different colors (red, green, blue, orange, pink, and black). The cube is separated into unit cubes of side 1 cm. How many unit cubes will have two colors on any of their sides?

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80
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144
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120
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96
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Solution

The correct option is C 120

There are a total of 12 unit cubes on one edge, out of which 10 have two colors on their faces. The other 2 that are marked with X signs have 3 colors on their faces.

Hence, on each edge, there are 10 cubes and there are 12 such edges on a cube.

Hence, total number of required unit cubes are = 12 × 10 = 120

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