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UKMT Junior Mathematical Challenge, 2015

Number theory Difficulty 2.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

One of the following cubes is the smallest cube that can be written as the sum of three positive cubes. Which is it?

(A) $27$ (B) $64$ (C) $125$ (D) $216$ (E) $512$

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