Lab 2: The Cube

Question: “What numbers, letters, and color is printed on the bottom of the cube?”

Observations:
1. Two opposing sides are red.
2. Two opposing sides are white.
3. The top of the cube is the only red side and has the only name that starts with the letter F.
4. The two blue opposing sides have names that begin with the letter R.
5. The two white opposing sides have names that begin with the letter A.
6.  The top right number in each section of the cube represents the number of letters in the name.  7. The numbers on the bottom left of opposing sides are the same.
8. No one name on each side of the cube has the same amount of letters.
9. The names in each section of the cube increase by one letter: “Rob” starts this pattern.
10.  All of the names have vowels: white opposing sides names have two syllables; the blue opposing sides do not have the same number of syllables, however rob and frank both have one syllable; each name except, Roberta, has a partner with the same amount of syllables.
11. On the opposing sides one name is female and the other is male.


Hypothesis:

The numbers on the bottom are 8 and 4, the color is red, and the name will be a female name that starts with the letter F and it will have 8 letters and 3 syllables, e.g. Fantasia and Fayelynn.

The existing color patterns on the cube support my hypothesis that  the bottom of the cube is red. The evidence supporting this is that four of the six sides have an opposing side of the same color except the top red side whose opposing side is the bottom of the cube.

I can conclude that eight is the top right number on the bottom side because the number pattern is consistent and accurate on the five sides that have numbers.  I observed that each of the five sides has a name and a top right number, each sides number accurately accounts for the letters on that particular side.  Starting with the name “Rob”, containing three letters (which is represented by the number 3 located above the name) and ending with “Roberta”, containing seven letters (which is represented by the number 7 located above the name) and every name on each side increases by one letter but never decreases by one letter.

My conclusion about the name on the bottom of the cube being female, starting with the letter F and the name having to contain three syllables is supported by these three patterns I observed.  Pattern one: on both the opposing blue and white sides of the cube one name is female and the other is male.  Pattern two: The opposing sides that contain names start with the same letter, i.e., the opposing blue sides both start with “R”, Rob and Roberta, and the opposing white sides both start with the letter “A”, Alma and Alfred.  This indicates that the only side without an opposing name, the top of the cube with the name Frank, will have an opposing name that starts with the same letter. Pattern three: Each name except, Roberta, has a partner with the same amount of syllables: Rob and Frank, have one syllable each and Alma and Alfred have two syllables each.  Roberta has three syllables and no partner which supports the hypothesis that the bottom name will have three syllables.