{"id":2730,"date":"2022-06-18T08:14:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T12:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2024-04-06T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:09:00","slug":"alcan-highway-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2022\/06\/18\/alcan-highway-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcan Highway Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2728\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Alcan-Highway-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Alcan-Highway-Fig2.jpg 402w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Alcan-Highway-Fig2-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>This work problem from Geoffrey Mott-Smith is a little bit tricky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn engineer working on the Alcan Highway was heard to say, \u201cAt the time I said I could finish this section in a week, I expected to get two more bulldozers for the job. If they had left me what machines I had, I\u2019d have been only a day behind schedule. As it is, they\u2019ve taken away all my machines but one, and I\u2019ll be weeks behind schedule!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How many weeks?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Alcan-Highway-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Alcan-Highway-Problem-220616.pdf\">Alcan Highway Problem<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This work problem from Geoffrey Mott-Smith is a little bit tricky. \u201cAn engineer working on the Alcan Highway was heard to say, \u201cAt the time I said I could finish this section in a week, I expected to get two more bulldozers for the job. If they had left me what machines I had, I\u2019d [&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":[239,244],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-mott-smith","tag-work-problem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","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=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3613,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/3613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}