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

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Answer: 8

Solution:

The truncated octahedron is the -faced Archimedean solid, with total faces : squares and 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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