{"id":494,"date":"2019-01-14T09:44:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=494"},"modified":"2022-05-26T19:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T23:40:01","slug":"two-pints-of-cider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/14\/two-pints-of-cider\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Pints of Cider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-492\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Two-Pints-Cider-Fig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"188\">This is another problem from the defunct <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> Varsity Math Week column.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam member Janice recently visited the U.K. and poses this puzzle to her teammates: You have three containers that can hold exactly 15, 10 and 6 pints. The 15-pint container starts full of cider. You want to measure out exactly 2 pints of cider, drink it all, and end with an empty 15-pint container and 8 and 5 pints of cider in the other two containers. What transfers should you make to accomplish this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The solution is based on my <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/29\/three-jugs-problem\/\">Three Jugs Problem<\/a>. See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Two-Pints-of-Cider-171117.pdf\">Two Pints of Cider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another problem from the defunct Wall Street Journal Varsity Math Week column. \u201cTeam member Janice recently visited the U.K. and poses this puzzle to her teammates: You have three containers that can hold exactly 15, 10 and 6 pints. The 15-pint container starts full of cider. You want to measure out exactly 2 [&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":[242,75,68],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-mixture-problems","tag-skew-billiard-table","tag-varsity-math-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}