{"id":1043,"date":"2019-06-04T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T16:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2024-04-10T18:07:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T22:07:37","slug":"a-tricky-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/04\/a-tricky-product\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tricky Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1040\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tricky-Product-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"178\" \/>This is a tricky product problem from Alfred Posamentier which naturally has a slick solution\u2014if you can think of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFind the numerical value of the following expression:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1054\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tricky-Product-eq4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span>_<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Tricky-Product-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tricky-Product-190325.pdf\">A Tricky Product<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a tricky product problem from Alfred Posamentier which naturally has a slick solution\u2014if you can think of it. \u201cFind the numerical value of the following expression: &#8220;_ Answer. See A Tricky Product for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-algebra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3829,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/3829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}