Question 2
What is the total surface area of a cube of limestone 2 cm along each edge?
The right answer is the one marked above.
24 cm2. One face has an area of 2 cm × 2 cm = 4 cm2, and a cube has 6 faces: 4 cm2 × 6 = 24 cm2.
8 cm3 is the volume of the cube, not its area. 48 cm2 is what you get after cutting it into 8 small cubes.