Surface area of a cube

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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 121 2 121 \sqrt{2} , what was the surface area of the original cube?


The answer is 726.

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1 solution

Let x x be the side length of the cube. From the figure, the length of the hypotenuse is x 2 x\sqrt{2} . So the area of the largest face is x ( x 2 ) = 121 2 x(x\sqrt{2})=121\sqrt{2} . It follows that,

x 2 = 121 x^2=121

So the surface area of the original cube is,

S = 6 x 2 = 6 ( 121 ) = S=6x^2=6(121)= 726 \boxed{726}

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