General Mental Ability 4

Dice, Cubes and Cuboids

Number of Questions : 30 CEX–6135/20

Level –1 4. Which number is on the face opposite to 6?

Directions for questions 1 to 5: Answer the

questions based on the following information.
In each of the following questions various faces of a
cube are shown. Study them and answer the
questions. (a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4
1. Which number is on the face opposite to 6?
5. Six faces of a cube are numbered from 1 to
6. Three different pictures of that cube are as
shown below. Which number is exactly
opposite to 6?

(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 4 (d) 5 5 5 3

2. A dice is shown in three different positions. 4 1 1 3 1 2

Find the right number of dots on the face
marked with a question mark.
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4

Direction for question 6 to 9: Answer the questions

? based on the following information.
In each of the following questions various faces of a
cube are shown. Study them and answer the
questions.
(a) 3 (b) 4
(c) 5 (d) 6 6. Study the different positions of a cube as given
below. Which numbers will occur on the face
3. Which number is on the face opposite to 3? opposite to 4?

5 3 4 2
1 3 4 5 3 2 3 1

(a) 1 (b) 2 (a) 3 (b) 5

(c) 4 (d) 5 (c) 1 (d) 6

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7. Two positions of a dice are shown below:
1 3
(a) (b)
8 8

5 7
(c) (d)
8 8

When two dots are at the top, how many dots Directions for questions 12 to 16: A cube is
will be at the bottom? coloured red on all faces. It is cut into 64 smaller
(a) 3 (b) 4 cubes of equal size. Now, answer the following
(c) 2 (d) 5 questions based on this statement:

8. The number opposite to 3 is 12. How many cubes have no face coloured?
(a) 24 (b) 16
2 3 4 (c) 8 (d) 0
1 3 1 5 2 3
13. How many cubes are there which have only
(a) 1 (b) 6 one face coloured?
(c) 5 (d) 4 (a) 4 (b) 8
(c) 16 (d) 24
9. The number in place of the question mark (?)
is 14. How many cubes have two red opposite faces?
(a) 0 (b) 8
2 1 2 (c) 16 (d) 24

1 3 2 4 1 ? 15. How many cubes have three faces coloured?

(a) 24 (b) 16
(c) 8 (d) 4
(a) 3 (b) 5
(c) 4 (d) 6
16. How many painted cubes will remain if outer
10. Sixty four identical cubes are assembled to layer of the cube is removed from all the sides?
form a larger cube. All the six faces of this (a) 0 (b) 12
larger cube are painted black. How many (c) 24 (d) 36
smaller cubes will have exactly 2 faces which
are painted black? Directions for questions 17 and 18: A cube is
(a) 8 (b) 16 painted blue on all faces and cut into 125 cubes of
(c) 24 (d) 32 equal size. Now, answer the following questions:

Level–2 17. How many cubes are not painted on any

face ?
11. A large cube which is painted green on all its (a) 8 (b) 16
faces is divided into 64 identical smaller (c) 18 (d) 27
cubes. If a smaller cube is chosen at random,
then what is the probability that it will have at
least one painted face?

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18. How many cubes are painted on one face only? 21. How many unit cubes are there with only two
(a) 8 (b) 16 adjacent faces painted?
(c) 36 (d) 54 (a) 16 (b) 24
(c) 20 (d) 28
Directions for questions 19 and 20: The six faces
of a cube are coloured black, brown, green, red, white 22. How many unit cubes are there with at least
and blue, such that two adjacent faces painted, out of which at
(i) Red is opposite to black least one face is painted Orange?
(ii) Green is between red and black (a) 18 (b) 24
(iii) Blue is adjacent to white (c) 26 (d) 12
(iv) Brown is adjacent to blue
(v) Red is at the bottom. 23. The outer surface of a 4 cm × 4 cm × 4 cm
cube is painted completely in red. It is sliced
Answer the following questions based on this parallel to the faces to yield sixty four 1 cm ×
information. 1 cm × 1 cm small cubes. How many small
cubes do not have painted faces?
19. Which colour is opposite to brown?
(a) 8 (b) 16
(a) White (b) Red
(c) Green (d) Blue (c) 24 (d) 36

20. The four adjacent colours are 24. A solid cube of 3 cm side, painted on all its
(a) Black, Blue, Brown, Red faces, is cut up into small cubes of 1 cm
(b) Black, Blue, Brown, White side. How many of the small cubes will have
(c) Black , Blue, Red, White exactly two painted faces?
(d) Black, Brown, Red, White (a) 12 (b) 8
(c) 6 (d) 4
Level –3

Directions for questions 21 and 22: A cube is
painted Black, Yellow, Violet, Red, Orange and
Green on its six faces with a single distinct colour
on each face. Following pairs of colours were on
opposite faces Yellow–Green, Red–Black and
Orange–Violet. The cube is divided into 64 identical
unit cubes.
Ye llow
V io le t
Red
B lack
25. A solid cube is painted yellow, blue and black
such that opposite faces are of same colour.
The cube is then cut into 36 cubes of two
different sizes such that 32 cubes are small
and the other four cubes are big. None of the
faces of the bigger cubes is painted blue. How
many cubes have only one face painted?
(a) 4 (b) 6
(c) 8 (d) 10
26. Each face of a cube can be painted in black
or white colours. In how many different ways
can the cube be painted?

O ra ng e
(a) 9 (b) 10
(c) 11 (d) 12
G re en

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Directions for questions 27 to 30: Answer the 28. How many smaller cubes are there with only
questions on the basis of the information given one face painted?
below: (a) 72 (b) 8
(c) 54 (d) 108
A bigger cube of side 5 cm is such that opposite
faces of cube has been painted with same color. 29. How many smaller cubes does not have any
Three colors viz. green, red and black are used to face painted?
paint the faces of the cube. Now, cube is cut into (a) 8 (b) 1
smaller cubes, each having side 1 cm. (c) 27 (d) 54

27. How many smaller cubes are there with three 30. How many smaller cubes have exactly two
faces painted? faces painted?
(a) 1 (b) 54 (a) 36 (b) 24
(c) 108 (d) 8 (c) 18 (d) 8

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 General Mental Ability – 4 CEX–6135/20

Dice, Cubes and Cuboids

Answers and Explanations
1 a 2 c 3 c 4 d 5 a 6 c 7 d 8 b 9 a 10 c
11 d 12 c 13 d 14 a 15 c 16 a 17 d 18 d 19 a 20 d
21 b 22 d 23 a 24 a 25 c 26 b 27 d 28 c 29 c 30 a

1. a The opposite of 6 cannot be 3, 4, 2 and 5. So it must 11. d The total number of cubes with at least one side
be 1. painted = total number of cubes – number of cubes
with none of the sides painted = 64 – 8 = 56.
2. c 5 is opposite to 6, 2 is opposite 4 and 3 is opposite 1. 56 7
Also, the adjacent face of 1 and 2 is either 5 or 6. Thus, the required probability = = .
64 8
Therefore, according to the figure the number in place
of (?) will be 5.
For solutions 12 to 16:
3. c The opposite of 3 cannot be 5, 6, 2 and 1. So it is 4, The given figure shows the cube coloured red on all faces,
which is opposite to 3. and divided into 64 smaller cubes. (Shaded area = Red)

4. d The opposite of 5 cannot be 6, 3, 4 and 2. So it must be

1. The opposite of 3 cannot be 5, 6, 4, and 1 so it must La yer I
be 2. Hence, the opposite of 6 is 4. La yer II
5. a From the given figures we can conclude that none of La yer III
the numbers except 2, 3, 4 and 5 are opposite to 1. La yer IV
Thus, number 1 is opposite to number 6.

6. c From first two cubes, we can easily conclude that it is

1 opposite to 4.
The figure may be analysed by dividing it into four horizontal
7. d The face opposite to 2 dots must have 5 dots. layers.

8. b Since 4, 5, 2, 1 cannot be opposite to 3. In layer I: The four central cubes have only one face coloured
Thus, the number opposite to 3 is 6. four cubes at the corner have three faces coloured and the
remaining 8 cubes have two faces coloured.
9. a From the 1st figure, the number will be 3.

10. c The smaller cubes which are painted black on exactly

2 faces must be those which are shared by exactly 2
faces of the larger cube. So these small cubes must
all lie along the edge of the larger cube but not on the
corners. Number of corners of the larger cube = 8 In each of the layers II & III: The four central cubes have no
Each edge of the larger cube will consist of 3 64 = 4 face coloured, the four cubes at the corner have two faces
coloured and the remaining 8 cubes have only one face
cubes.
coloured.
But out of these 4, there are 2 cubes which occupy
some corner of the larger cube.
So on each edge there are exactly 2 cubes which are
shared by exactly 2 faces.
Total number of such cubes = 2 × number of edges
= 2 × 12 = 24.

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 painted and the remaining 12 cubes have one face painted.

In layer IV: The four central cubes have only one face
coloured, four cubes at the corner have three faces coloured In Layer V: The 9 central cubes have only one face painted,
and the remaining 8 cubes have two faces coloured. four cubes at the corner have three faces painted and the
The figure will be same as that of layer I. remaining 12 cubes have two faces painted.
12. c Four central cubes in layer II and four central cubes in
layer III have no face coloured. Thus there are 8 such
cubes.

13. d Four central cubes in layer I, 8 cubes in layer II, 8

cubes in layer III and four central cubes in layer IV
have only one face coloured. Thus, there are 4 + 8 +
8 + 4 = 24 such cubes.
17. d There are 9 central cube in each of the layers II, III and
14. a None of the cubes can have its opposite faces IV which have no face painted.
coloured. Thus, there are 9 × 3 = 27 such cubes.

15. c Four corner cubes in layer I and four corner cubes in 18. d There are 9 cubes in layer I, 12 cubes in each of the
layer IV have three faces coloured. Thus, there are 8 layers II, III and IV, 9 cubes in layer V which are painted
such cubes. on one face only.
Thus, there are 9 + 12 ×3 + 9 = 54 such cubes.
16. a If the outer layer is remove from all sides, no painted
cube will be left.
For solutions 19 and 20:
On the basis of the given details, the cube will be coloured as
For solutions 17 and 18: indicated in the figure shown.
The following figure shows the cubes painted blue on all face
and divided into 125 smaller cubes:
TO P
La yer I B L AC K S ID E 4
BROW N
La yer II
La yer III S ID E 2 S ID E 1
La yer IV W H IT E BLUE S ID E 3
La yer V GREEN

B O TTO M
RED

19. a As is clear from the figure side 4 is coloured brown

The figure may be analysed by dividing it into five horizontal
and opposite to it lies the side 2 which is coloured
layers:
white. Therefore, white colour is opposite brown.
In layer I: The nine central cubes have only one face painted,
20. d Black, Brown, Red, White are adjacent colours which
four cubes at the corner have three faces painted and the
remaining 12 cubes have two faces painted. lie respectively on top, side 4, bottom and side2.

21. b There will be two such cubes on each edge.

Therefore, required numbers of cubes = 12 × 2 = 24.

22. d At least two painted faces mean cubes with two

painted faces and cubes with three painted faces but
one of the colors has to be orange.
In each of the layer II, III & IV: The nine central cubes have
no face painted, the four cubes at the corner have two faces

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23. a Required number of cubes 26. b
= (n – 2)3 = (4 – 2)3 = 8.
Black faces White faces No. of w ays
24. a Small cubes which will have exactly two painted faces
0 6 1
will be on the middle of each edge. Therefore, 12 such
small cubes will be there. 1 5 1
2 4 2
25. c 3 3 2
B lue 4 + (4 B ottom ) = 8 4 2 2
5 1 1
6 0 1

B lack
Ye llow 27. d Only corner cubes will have all the three faces painted
that are 8 in number.

28. c Each face contains 9 such cubes and there are

6 faces in a cube. Hence, total 9 × 6 = 54 smaller such
cubes are there.
Let the size of the original solid cube be 4 cm × 4
cm × 4 cm 29. c All internal cubes have no face painted. Hence, there
will be 27 such cubes.
Let the size of each of the 32 smaller cubes be 1
cm × 1 cm × 1 cm and that of 4 larger cubes be 2 cm 30. a Smaller cubes which are situated on the edges of
× 2 cm × 2 cm or we can say that if we cut the bigger cube has two face painted. There are 12 edges
original cube into 64 equal cubes we can take 32 as in a cube and each edge contain 3 such cubes. Hence,
the smaller ones and 32 as the bigger ones. required number of cubes = 12 × 3 = 36.
Given that none of the faces of the larger cube is
painted blue so we will leave 16 × 2 = 32 cubes from
the top and the bottom faces of the original cube and
remove all the remaining 4 cubes of dimension 2 × 2
× 2.
Hence, the number of cubes with only one side
painted will be 4 × 2 = 8 i.e. 4 each from the center of
the top blue side and the bottom blue side of the
original cube.

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