{"id":2475,"date":"2021-11-27T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2024-04-07T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:03:24","slug":"hard-time-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/27\/hard-time-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Time Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2473\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hard-Time-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hard-Time-Fig2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hard-Time-Fig2-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>This problem comes from the \u201cProblems Drive\u201d section of the <em>Eureka<\/em> magazine published in 1955 by the Archimedeans at Cambridge University, England.\u00a0 (\u201cThe problems drive is a competition conducted annually by the Archimedeans. Competitors work in pairs and are allowed five minutes per question \u2026.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are ten times as many seconds remaining in the hour as there are minutes remaining in the day. There are half as many minutes remaining in the day as there will be hours remaining in the week at the end of the day.\u00a0 What time is it on what day?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the hardest parts of the problem is just being able to translate the statements into mathematical terms. \u00a0Solvable in 5 minutes?!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Hard-Time-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hard-Time-Conundrum-210929.pdf\">Hard Time Conundrum<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This problem comes from the \u201cProblems Drive\u201d section of the Eureka magazine published in 1955 by the Archimedeans at Cambridge University, England.\u00a0 (\u201cThe problems drive is a competition conducted annually by the Archimedeans. Competitors work in pairs and are allowed five minutes per question \u2026.\u201d) \u201cThere are ten times as many seconds remaining in the [&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":[133,198,234],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-algebra","tag-clock-puzzles","tag-eureka-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","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=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3656,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/3656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}