{"id":4708,"date":"2025-12-27T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2025-12-27T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:52:09","slug":"yet-another-track-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2025\/12\/27\/yet-another-track-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Track Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4705\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Yet-Another-Track-Fig2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Yet-Another-Track-Fig2a.jpg 488w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Yet-Another-Track-Fig2a-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/>This is another problem from Dan Griller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Anthony and Benjamin run round a circular track in the same direction at constant but different speeds, they meet every 3 minutes.\u00a0 When Benjamin changes direction (but maintains his speed) they meet every 40 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>If Anthony is faster than Benjamin, calculate<\/p>\n<p>(speed of Anthony) \/ (speed of Benjamin)\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Yet-Another-Track-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Yet-Another-Track-Puzzle-230718.pdf\">Yet Another Track Puzzle<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another problem from Dan Griller. \u201cWhen Anthony and Benjamin run round a circular track in the same direction at constant but different speeds, they meet every 3 minutes.\u00a0 When Benjamin changes direction (but maintains his speed) they meet every 40 seconds. If Anthony is faster than Benjamin, calculate (speed of Anthony) \/ (speed [&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":[255,81],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-dan-griller","tag-travel-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","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=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4709,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions\/4709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}