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UKMT Junior Kangaroo, 2023

Geometry Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Find the answer United Kingdom

Emily makes four identical numbered cubes using the net shown. She then glues them together so that only faces with the same number on are glued together to form the 2×2×12 \times 2 \times 1 block shown. What is the largest possible total of all the numbers on the faces of the block that Emily could achieve?

(A) 7272 (B) 7070 (C) 6868 (D) 6666 (E) 6464

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