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A cube having edge of length is painted on all faces and then it is cut into equal cubes of unit volume. A small cube is selected at random and found that a face of it is painted, then the probability that two more faces of it are also painted is
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Let smaller cubes of edge length are obtained after cutting bigger cube of edge length .
Volume of bigger cubeVolume of smaller cube
When the painted cube is cute into small equal cubes, we have
faces painted cube on every corner Number of cubes with face painted
Three faces painted cube on every edge
Number of cubes with 2 face painted
Nine single face painted cube on side Number of cubes with face painted
Therefore, total number of cubes with any face painted
Let
Event that the the cube is painted
Event that teh cube has three face painted
So, required probability is
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