If number of cubes painted on exactly one face with colour 1 and colour 2 is 150, then how many cubes are painted with only colour 4?

Consider the 1^st step, initial number of cubes N³ after removal of 1^st set of coloured cubes number of cubes left out is (N - 1)³ hence number of cubes removed in 1^st step (i.e with colour 1) is
N³ - (N - 1)³ = 3N² - 3N + 1
Similarly number of cubes removed in 2^nd step (i.e with colour 2) is
Similarly number of cubes removed in 3^rd step is (i.e with colour 3) and so on.
= 3(N - 1)² - 3(N - 1) + 1
Number of cubes remaining after 1^st step is (N - 1)³
Number of cubes remaining after 2^nd step is (N - 2)³ and so on.
Number of cubes with only face is painted with colour 1 is 3(N - 2)(N - 1) = 3N² - 9N + 6
Number of cubes with only face is painted with colour 2 is 3 (N - 3)(N - 2) = 3N² - 15 N + 18
From the given condition (3N² - 9N + 6) + (3N² - 15 N + 18) = 6N² - 24N + 24 = 150 from this we will get N = 7.
Number of cubes left after step 3 is 4 x 4 x 4 = 64
When all the exposed faces are painted with colour 4 then number of cubes with only one face painted is 3 x 2 x 3 = 18
From the observation for 1^st step we have seen that number of cubes is 3(N - 2)(N - 1) or in other words 3 times the product of 2 consecutive integer that is satisfied only by 18 which is 3 times of 2 x 3.