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There are eight small cubes. Each face of each cube is to be painted either green or yellow but each cube must use each of the two colours somehow.

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Work out how to paint the faces so that the cubes can be put together to make a $2$ by $2$ by $2$ cube that is green all over AND can be rearranged to make a $2$ by $2$ by $2$ cube that is yellow all over.

Two Cubes


Now work out how to paint the faces to make a $3$ by $3$ by $3$ green cube and a $3$ by $3$ by $3$ yellow cube.

 

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