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Find the number of hexagonal faces that are present in a truncated octahedral.

A

2

B

4

C

6

D

8

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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 regular octahedron as:
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