{"id":422,"date":"2021-09-03T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/?p=422"},"modified":"2021-09-17T11:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:11:30","slug":"problem-01-fall-2021-leaving-for-lehavre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/2021\/09\/03\/problem-01-fall-2021-leaving-for-lehavre\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem 1 &#8211; Leaving for London &#8211; September 3, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\"><b>Leaving For London<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A version of this problem is attributed to Edouard Lucas, a French nineteenth-century mathematician.<\/p>\n<p>Every day at noon a ship leaves London for New York and another ship leaves New York for London.\u00a0 The trip lasts 7 days and 7 nights.\u00a0 How many New York to London ships will the ship leaving London today meet during its journey to New York?<\/p>\n<p>Consider creating a picture to show your thinking.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please submit all problem solutions to mathpotw@acu.edu before 5:00 PM on the next Thursday.\u00a0 \u00a0Due to a lack of submissions received this problem has been extended by one week.\u00a0 All submissions are due by 5:00 PM on Thursday, September 16.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There were no correct solutions submitted.\u00a0 The solution is below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-17-at-11.10.18-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-434\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-17-at-11.10.18-AM-490x264.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving For London A version of this problem is attributed to Edouard Lucas, a French nineteenth-century mathematician. Every day at noon a ship leaves London for New York and another ship leaves New York for London.\u00a0 The trip lasts 7 days and 7 nights.\u00a0 How many New York to London ships will the ship leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[181534],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-problem-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}