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@pckeller you are a hero.

There are 8 cubes. And there are 6 faces for a cube. Now if I imagine that each of these cubes are on the vertices of the cube, then there will be 8 cubes, each with six faces. Therefore surface area; 12 = 6*(0.5^2 * 8).

I was having trouble because I could not visualise the cube being split up, so I was ignoring the cubes that were hidden!

I finally get it :D:D:D

May I ask you, is my terminology correct, with respect to the vertices etc.

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For anyone in the future, I hope this helps:

http://postimg.org/image/haolsgnz7/

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It looks like you got it! And that is an excellent diagram.

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@pckeller Thank you!

Someone else did it, but your fantastic explanations also assisted a lot :slight_smile: