{"id":2679,"date":"2022-05-07T08:47:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T12:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2024-04-06T13:29:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:29:29","slug":"meeting-on-the-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2022\/05\/07\/meeting-on-the-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting on the Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2677\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Meeting-on-the-Bridge-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Meeting-on-the-Bridge-Fig2.jpg 401w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Meeting-on-the-Bridge-Fig2-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Here is another Brainteaser from the <em>Quantum<\/em> math magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNick left Nicktown at 10:18 A.M. and arrived at Georgetown at 1:30 P.M., walking at a constant speed. On the same day, George left Georgetown at 9:00 A.M. and arrived at Nicktown at 11:40 A.M., walking at a constant speed along the same road. The road crosses a wide river. Nick and George arrived at the bridge simultaneously, each from his side of the river. Nick left the bridge 1 minute later than George. When did they arrive at the bridge?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Meeting-on-the-Bridge-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Meeting-on-the-Bridge-200810.pdf\">Meeting on the Bridge<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another Brainteaser from the Quantum math magazine. \u201cNick left Nicktown at 10:18 A.M. and arrived at Georgetown at 1:30 P.M., walking at a constant speed. On the same day, George left Georgetown at 9:00 A.M. and arrived at Nicktown at 11:40 A.M., walking at a constant speed along the same road. The road [&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":[194,81],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-quantum-magazine","tag-travel-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","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=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}