Daud want to paint some faces of a cube with green paint. At least one face must be painted. How many ways are there for him to paint the cube? Note: Two colorings are considered the same if one can be obtained from the other by rotation.

Find the largest cube which can be placed inside a regular tetrahedron with side $1$ so that one of its faces lies on the base of the tetrahedron.

Find the maximum length of a broken line on the surface of a unit cube, such that its links are the cube’s edges and diagonals of faces, the line does not intersect itself and passes no more than once through any vertex of the cube, and its endpoints are in two opposite vertices of the cube.

We are given $n$ identical cubes, each of size $1\times 1\times 1$. We arrange all of these $n$ cubes to produce one or more congruent rectangular solids, and let $B(n)$ be the number of ways to do this. For example, if $n=12$, then one arrangement is twelve $1\times1\times1$ cubes, another is one $3\times 2\times2$ solid, another is three $2\times 2\times1$ solids, another is three $4\times1\times1$ solids, etc. We do not consider, say, $2\times2\times1$ and $1\times2\times2$ to be different; these solids are congruent. You may wish to verify, for example, that $B(12) =11$. Find, with proof, the integer $m$ such that $10^m<B(2015^{100})<10^{m+1}$.

Given a cube and two colours. Two players paint in turn a triple of arbitrary unpainted edges with his colour. (Everyone makes two moves.) The first wins if he has painted all the edges of some face with his colour. Can he always win?

Consider the cube $ABCDA'B'C'D'$ (with face $ABCD$ directly above face $A'B'C'D'$). a) Find the locus of the midpoints of the segments $XY$, where $X$ is any point of $AC$ and $Y$ is any piont of $B'D'$; b) Find the locus of points $Z$ which lie on the segment $XY$ of part a) with $ZY=2XZ$.

Consider the cube $ABCDA'B'C'D'$ ($ABCD$ and $A'B'C'D'$ are the upper and lower bases, repsectively, and edges $AA', BB', CC', DD'$ are parallel). The point $X$ moves at a constant speed along the perimeter of the square $ABCD$ in the direction $ABCDA$, and the point $Y$ moves at the same rate along the perimiter of the square $B'C'CB$ in the direction $B'C'CBB'$. Points $X$ and $Y$ begin their motion at the same instant from the starting positions $A$ and $B'$, respectively. Determine and draw the locus of the midpionts of the segments $XY$.

What is the largest integer $n$ such that one can find $n$ points on the surface of a cube, not all lying on one face and being the vertices of a regular $n$-gon? (A Shapovalov)

A certain number of cubes are painted in six colours, each cube having six faces of different colours (the colours in different cubes may be arranged differently) . The cubes are placed on a table so as to form a rectangle. We are allowed to take out any column of cubes, rotate it (as a whole) along its long axis and replace it in the rectangle. A similar operation with rows is also allowed. Can we always make the rectangle monochromatic (i.e. such that the top faces of all the cubes are the same colour) by means of such operations? ( D. Fomin , Leningrad)

A cube with edge of length $n$ ($n\ge 3$) consists of $n^3$ unit cubes. Prove that it is possible to write different $n^3$ integers on all the unit cubes to provide the zero sum of all integers in the every row parallel to some edge.

Does there exist a cube in space such that the perpendiculars dropped from its eight vertices to a given plane are of length $0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6$ and $7$? (V Proizvolov)

A sphere sits inside a cubic box, tangent on all $6$ sides of the box. If a side of the box is $5$, and the volume of the sphere is $x\pi$ , find $x$.

The four bottom corners of a cube are colored red, green, blue, and purple. How many ways are there to color the top four corners of the cube so that every face has four different colored corners? Prove that your answer is correct.

Compute the radius of the largest circle that fits entirely within a unit cube.

In a cube-shaped box with an edge equal to $5$, there are two balls. The radius of one of the balls is $2$. Find the radius of the other ball if one of the balls touches the base and two side faces of the cube, and the other ball touches the first ball, base and two other side faces of the cube.

Can a regular octahedron be inscribed in a cube in such a way that all vertices of the octahedron are on cube's edges? (4)

Place the integers $1,2 , \ldots, n^{3}$ in the cells of a $n\times n \times n$ cube such that every number appears once. For any possible enumeration, write down the maximal difference between any two adjacent cells (adjacent means having a common vertex). What is the minimal number noted down?

In an aquarium there are nine small fish. The aquarium is cube shaped with a side length of two meters and is completely filled with water. Show that it is always possible to find two small fish with a distance of less than $\sqrt3$ meters.

Consider the cube $ABCDA'B'C'D'$. The bisectors of the angles $\angle A' C'A$ and $\angle A' AC'$ intersect $AA'$ and $A'C$ in the points $P$, respectively $S$. The point $M$ is the foot of the perpendicular from $A'$ on $CP$ , and $N$ is the foot of the perpendicular from $A'$ to $AS$. Point $O$ is the center of the face $ABB'A'$ a) Prove that the planes $(MNO)$ and $(AC'B)$ are parallel. b) Calculate the distance between these planes, knowing that $AB = 1$.

Alex marked one point on each of the six interior faces of a hollow unit cube. Then he connected by strings any two marked points on adjacent faces. Prove that the total length of these strings is at least $6\sqrt2$.

Consider the $8\times 8\times 8$ Rubik’s cube below. Each face is painted with a different color, and it is possible to turn any layer, as you can with smaller Rubik’s cubes. Let $X$ denote the move that turns the shaded layer shown (indicated by arrows going from the top to the right of the cube) clockwise by $90$ degrees, about the axis labeled $X$. When move $X$ is performed, the only layer that moves is the shaded layer. Likewise, define move $Y$ to be a clockwise $90$-degree turn about the axis labeled Y, of just the shaded layer shown (indicated by the arrows going from the front to the top, where the front is the side pierced by the $X$ rotation axis). Let $M$ denote the move “perform $X$, then perform $Y$.” [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/e/f/951ea75a3dbbf0ca23c45cd8da372595c2de48.png[/img] Imagine that the cube starts out in “solved” form (so each face has just one color), and we start doing move $M$ repeatedly. What is the least number of repeats of $M$ in order for the cube to be restored to its original colors?

An ant is at one corner of a unit cube. If the ant must travel on the box’s surface, the shortest distance the ant must crawl to reach the opposite corner of the cube can be written in the form $\sqrt{a}$, where $a$ is a positive integer. Compute $a$.

* Cut out of a $3 \times 3$ square an unfolding of the cube with edge $1$.

Consider a container of a hollow cube $ABGCDEPF$ (where $ABGC$, $DEPF$ are squares and $AD\parallel BE\parallel GP\parallel CF$). The cube is placed on a table in a way that the space diagonal $AP=1$ is perpendicular to the table. Then, water is poured into the cube. Denote $x$ the length of part of $AP$ submerged in water. Determine the volume of water $y$ in terms of $x$ when a) $0 < x \leq\frac13$, b) $\frac13 < x \leq\frac12$.

Let $O$ and $O'$ designate two dìagonally opposite vertices of a cube. Bisect those edges of the cube that contain neither of the points $O$ and $O'$. Prove that these midpoints of edges lie in a plane and form the vertices of a regular hexagon