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You have a very large number of generic plastic building blocks, each in the shape of a cube.

Think about how many cubes you would need in order to construct a giant cube with 16 small cubes along each edge.

If you were to then remove the outside layer, how many small cubes would you have removed?

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Hint: Think about one face at a time.

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