{"id":511,"date":"2022-02-25T14:43:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/?p=511"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:43:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:43:41","slug":"problem-12-a-riddle-of-ages-february-25-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/2022\/02\/25\/problem-12-a-riddle-of-ages-february-25-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem 12 &#8211; A Riddle of Ages &#8211; February 25, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Problem 12 &#8211; A Riddle of Ages<\/h3>\n<p>A census worker visits the home of a woman. After he knocks on her door, she answers and he can see three kids behind her. He asks about the ages of the children. She says, \u201cThe product of their ages is 72. And the sum of their ages is the number on the door.\u201d He checks the door, thinks about it a minute, and then says \u201cI need more information.\u201d She replies, \u201cThe oldest one likes strawberries.\u201d He immediately figures out their ages.<\/p>\n<p>Please submit your work for this problem to mathpotw@acu.edu by Thursday, March 3rd at 5:00 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem 12 &#8211; A Riddle of Ages A census worker visits the home of a woman. After he knocks on her door, she answers and he can see three kids behind her. He asks about the ages of the children. She says, \u201cThe product of their ages is 72. And the sum of their ages [&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-511","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\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/mu_sigma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}