mapping of cube by itself

from exam textbook i am given to solve following problem: question is like this in space how many line is such by which if turn cube by 180 degree it will map itself? i was thinking about this problem many times i though it should be axis of symmetry for which answer would be 4 but in answers there is not 4 so i did not find solution of it yet please help me to make it clear for me

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Ross correctly enumerated the possible lines.

You should take into account that when you rotate the cube about a body diagonal, you have to rotate an integer multiple of 120 degrees in order to get the cube to map back to itself. So for the purposes of this question the body diagonals don't count. 9 is the correct answer.

Perhaps the easiest way to convince you of this is that there are 3 edges meeting at each corner. Rotation about a 3D-diagonal permutes these 3 edges cyclically, and is therefore of order 3 as a symmetry. Yet another way of seeing this is that if we view the cube as a subset $[0,1]\times[0,1]\times[0,1]\subset\mathbf{R}^3$, then the linear mapping $(x,y,z)\mapsto (y,z,x)$ keeps the opposite corners $(0,0,0)$ and $(1,1,1)$ as fixed, obviously maps the cube back to itself, and as this mapping is orientation preserving (in $SO(3)$), it must be a rotation about this diagonal. As it is of order 3, the angle of rotation must be 120 degrees.

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