The figure above is a cube. It is cut into two equal pieces of solids as shown. If the area of the largest face of one of these solids is
, what was the surface area of the original cube?
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x 2 = 1 2 1
So the surface area of the original cube is,
S = 6 x 2 = 6 ( 1 2 1 ) = 7 2 6