{"id":3144,"date":"2023-04-15T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T14:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2024-04-05T16:29:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:29:37","slug":"bailing-water-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/15\/bailing-water-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailing Water Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3142\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Bailing-Water-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Bailing-Water-Fig2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Bailing-Water-Fig2-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>This is a straight-forward problem from <em>Five Hundred Mathematical Challenges<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA boat has sprung a leak.\u00a0 Water is coming in at a uniform rate and some has already accumulated when the leak is detected.\u00a0 At this point, 12 men of equal skill can pump the boat dry in 3 hours, while 5 men require 10 hours.\u00a0 How many men are needed to pump it dry in 2 hours?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Bailing-Water-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Bailing-Water-Problem-230414.pdf\">Bailing Water Problem<\/a> for solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a straight-forward problem from Five Hundred Mathematical Challenges. \u201cA boat has sprung a leak.\u00a0 Water is coming in at a uniform rate and some has already accumulated when the leak is detected.\u00a0 At this point, 12 men of equal skill can pump the boat dry in 3 hours, while 5 men require 10 [&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":[177,244],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-500-math-challenges","tag-work-problem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","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=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}