Amanda used 24 grams of paint to paint a wooden cube. When it dried, she cut the cube into 8 equal cubes. How many more grams of paint does Amanda need to paint the unpainted surfaces of the 8 cubes?

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Answer:

Amanda needs 72 grams of paint

Step-by-step explanation:

Notice that she already painted one face of each cube, that is, 8 faces in total, and she used 24 grams for that.

Now, there remain 3 faces per cube to be painted, which means there are 24 faces.

Then, we use the rule of three, if she used 24 grams of paint for 8 faces, how much grams of paint she would need to paint 24 faces?

[tex]24 \times \frac{24}{8}= 72 \ grams[/tex]

Therefore, Amanda needs 72 grams of paint for the unpainted surfaces.

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