The number of hexagonal faces that are present in a truncated octahedron is

The number of hexagonal faces that are present in a truncated octahedron is

Solution

The truncated octahedron is the 14 -faced Archimedean solid, with 14 total faces. 6 squares and 8 regular hexagons. The truncated octahedron is formed by removing the six right square pyramids one from each point of a regular octahedron as:

Asked in: JEE Advanced 2011 (Paper 2)

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