{"id":4659,"date":"2025-11-15T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=4659"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:29:35","slug":"sailors-and-coconuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2025\/11\/15\/sailors-and-coconuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailors and Coconuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4656\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sailors-and-Coconuts-Fig2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sailors-and-Coconuts-Fig2a.jpg 412w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sailors-and-Coconuts-Fig2a-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>This <a href=\"https:\/\/aplusclick.org\/t.htm?level=12;t=2;q=3919\">problem<\/a> from A+Click follows a classic pattern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 190 coconuts in a basket.\u00a0 Sailors one after another take out half of them and one each time until one is left.\u00a0 How many sailors are there?<\/p>\n<p>Answer Choices:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5\u00a0\u00a0 6\u00a0\u00a0 7\u00a0\u00a0 8\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sailors-and-Coconuts-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sailors-and-Coconuts-250121.pdf\">Sailors and Coconuts<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This problem from A+Click follows a classic pattern. \u201cThere are 190 coconuts in a basket.\u00a0 Sailors one after another take out half of them and one each time until one is left.\u00a0 How many sailors are there? Answer Choices:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5\u00a0\u00a0 6\u00a0\u00a0 7\u00a0\u00a0 8\u201d Answer. See Sailors and Coconuts for solutions.<\/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":[133,284],"class_list":["post-4659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-algebra","tag-aplusclick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659","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=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4660,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}