The outer sides of a plane cube have 6 faces. Each face can either have 2 sides colored, 1 side colored or no sides colored. a) For a face to have just 2 sides colored, those 2 sides must be adjacent. There are 4 such pairs of adjacent sides. b) For a face to have just 1 side colored, that side must be an edge. There are 3 edges per face. c) For a face to have no sides colored, it is left blank. There is 1 face that can be left blank. Therefore, the answers are: a) 8 b) 6 c) 1