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Nathan stacked 30 blocks into a rectangular prism as shown below.
The prism has 6 faces.
Nathan removes some blocks and the remaining shape has 14 faces.
What was the smallest number of blocks that he could have removed?
`2`
`text(If Nathan removes the middle block in the second)`
`text(column, the number of faces on the new shape)`
`text(increases by 4.)`
`:.\ text(If he removes the middle block of the second and)`
`text(fourth column, the shape has 14 faces.)`
`:.\ text(2 blocks is the smallest number.)`