{"id":3383,"date":"2023-11-25T12:07:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T17:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2024-04-05T10:52:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T14:52:21","slug":"two-containers-mixing-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/25\/two-containers-mixing-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Containers Mixing Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3381\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Two-Containers-Mixing-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Two-Containers-Mixing-Fig2.jpg 395w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Two-Containers-Mixing-Fig2-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>This is a slightly different type of a mixture problem from Dan Griller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo containers A and B sit on a table, partially filled with water.\u00a0 First, 40% of the water in A is poured into B, which completely fills it.\u00a0 Then 75% of the water in B is poured into A, which completely fills it.\u00a0 80% of the water in A is poured into B, which completely fills it.\u00a0 Calculate the ratio of the capacity of container A to the capacity of container B, and the fraction of container A that was occupied by water at the start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Two-Containers-Mixing-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Two-Containers-Mixing-Puzzle-230527.pdf\">Two Containers Mixing Puzzle<\/a> for solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a slightly different type of a mixture problem from Dan Griller. \u201cTwo containers A and B sit on a table, partially filled with water.\u00a0 First, 40% of the water in A is poured into B, which completely fills it.\u00a0 Then 75% of the water in B is poured into A, which completely fills [&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":[255,242],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-dan-griller","tag-mixture-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","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=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3512,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}