Dices problems

A Dice is a cube. In a cube, there are six faces. The six faces in the cube are– ABCG, GCDE, DEFH, BCDH, AGEF, and ABHF.

1. Four faces are adjacent to one face
2. There are pairs of opposing faces e.g. Opposite of DEFH is ABCG and so on.
3. CDEG is the upper face of the cube
4. ABHF is the bottom face of the cube.

Important facts

1. A cube has 6 square faces or sides
2. A cube has 8 points(vertices)
3. A cube has 12 edges
4. Only 3 sides of a cube are visible at a time and these sides can never be on the opposite side of each other
5. Things that are shaped like a cube are often referred to as cubic
6. Most dice are cube-shaped, with the numbers 1 to 6 on the different faces

Deconstruction of a cube(flat view)

When we are given a dice it is somewhat difficult to visualize it in 3-D so what we do is that flatten the cube. We can form a cube that has been flattened where we can visualize, the square at the farthest end will give the top of the cube and the square that is the middle will form the base of the given dice. The given figures below can help you understand the theory stated above.

The rest of the square will give the adjacent sides of the dice. Note that we have to clearly visualize the adjacent sides and we have to figure out what exactly the question is asking. The flattening of dice is the easiest way that we can use to solve the dice problems.