2005 AMC 12A Problem 10


A wooden cube nn units on a side is painted red on all six faces and then cut into n3n^3 unit cubes. Exactly one-fourth of the total number of faces of the unit cubes are red. What is nn ?

(A) 3(B) 4(C) 5(D) 6(E) 7(\mathrm {A}) \ 3 \qquad (\mathrm {B}) \ 4 \qquad (\mathrm {C})\ 5 \qquad (\mathrm {D}) \ 6 \qquad (\mathrm {E})\ 7


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