{"id":3952,"date":"2024-04-20T08:27:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T12:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2024-04-20T08:30:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T12:30:47","slug":"weight-of-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2024\/04\/20\/weight-of-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight of Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3949\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Weight-of-Potatoes-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Weight-of-Potatoes-Fig2.jpg 394w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Weight-of-Potatoes-Fig2-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/>The following is another puzzle from the Irishman Owen O\u2019Shea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuppose you buy 100 pounds of potatoes and you are told that 99 percent of the potatoes consist of water.<\/p>\n<p>You bring the potatoes home and leave them outside to dehydrate until the amount of water in the potates is 98 percent.\u00a0 What is the weight of the potatoes now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This problem takes a little concentration to get right and the solution is a bit surprising at first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Weight-of-Potatoes-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Weight-of-Potatoes-240417.pdf\">Weight of Potatoes<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is another puzzle from the Irishman Owen O\u2019Shea. \u201cSuppose you buy 100 pounds of potatoes and you are told that 99 percent of the potatoes consist of water. You bring the potatoes home and leave them outside to dehydrate until the amount of water in the potates is 98 percent.\u00a0 What is 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":[242,263],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-mixture-problems","tag-owen-oshea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","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=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3955,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}