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Q. The number of square faces that are present in a truncated octahedron is ........

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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:
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Truncated octahedron unfolded in two-dimension.