{"id":1234,"date":"2019-09-01T07:55:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T11:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2024-04-10T15:13:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:13:32","slug":"trains-pickleminster-to-quickville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/01\/trains-pickleminster-to-quickville\/","title":{"rendered":"Trains \u2013 Pickleminster to Quickville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1233\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Trains-Pickleminster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Trains-Pickleminster.jpg 600w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Trains-Pickleminster-300x35.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>This is another train puzzle by H. E. Dudeney. This one has some hairy arithmetic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo trains, A and B, leave Pickleminster for Quickville at the same time as two trains, C and D, leave Quickville for Pickleminster. A passes C 120 miles from Pickleminster and D 140 miles from Pickleminster. B passes C 126 miles from Quickville and D half way between Pickleminster and Quickville. Now, what is the distance from Pickleminster to Quickville? Every train runs uniformly at an ordinary rate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Trains-Pickleminster-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Trains-Pickleminster-Quickville-190127.pdf\">Trains \u2013 Pickleminster to Quickville<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another train puzzle by H. E. Dudeney. This one has some hairy arithmetic. \u201cTwo trains, A and B, leave Pickleminster for Quickville at the same time as two trains, C and D, leave Quickville for Pickleminster. A passes C 120 miles from Pickleminster and D 140 miles from Pickleminster. B passes C 126 [&hellip;]<\/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":[28,79],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-henry-dudeney","tag-train-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","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=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3807,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}