Puzzle| 53 bricks of size 1x1x4 in 6x6x6 sized cube
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Question:Is it possible to fit 53 bricks of size 1×1×4 into a 6×6×6 box? Why or why not?53 bricks of size 1x1x4 in a 6x6x6 sized boxSolution: If we look at the total volume of the larger cube, 53 cubes have a volume of 212 which is smaller than the box’s volume of 216. So we might be thinking, that the answer to this problem is yes. Yet, we can show that it is not, i.e. it is impossible to pack all the bricks into the box using a similar approach…