When a cube is sliced by a plane perpendicular to one of its body diagonals passing through its midpoint, what is the shape of the resulting cross-section?
- AOctagon
- BHexagon
- CTrapezoid
- DPentagon
Solution & Step-by-step Explanation
When a plane cuts through a cube perpendicular to one of its main body diagonals right through the center, it intersects exactly six faces of the cube at symmetric midpoints. The resulting cross-section shape formed by these six intersections is a regular hexagon.