{"id":1021,"date":"2013-05-09T02:42:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T02:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2013-05-09T02:42:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T02:42:54","slug":"apple-women-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/2013\/05\/09\/apple-women-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Women Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apple Women Paradox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each of two apple women had 30 apples for<br \/>\nsale. The first sold hers at the rate of 2 for a nickel, the second<br \/>\nat the rate of 3 for a nickel. At the end of the day their respective<br \/>\nreceipts were 75 cents and 50 cents, or $1.25 in all. The<br \/>\nnext day the women decided to do business together, so they<br \/>\npooled their 60 apples and sold them at the rate of 5 for a<br \/>\ndime (2 for a nickel plus 3 for a nickel). Upon counting their<br \/>\njoint receipts at the end of the day they were dismayed to<br \/>\nfind that they had only $1.20. They searched all about them<br \/>\nfor that other nickel, and wound up by bitterly accusing each<br \/>\nother of having taken it. Where was it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>answer<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The apple women made the error of calculating<br \/>\ntheir average price rate by averaging their individual rates of %<br \/>\napples a cent and % apples a cent over the same number of apples.<br \/>\nTo guarantee the same receipts as those of the first day, they<br \/>\nshould have determined their price by dividing the total number<br \/>\nof apples by the total number of cents-that is, 6%25 = 1%5<br \/>\napples a cent. They actually sold the apples at the rate of 3r2 =<br \/>\n1%4 apples a cent. There&#8217;s where the missing nickel went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Women Paradox Each of two apple women had 30 apples for sale. The first sold hers at the rate of 2 for a nickel, the second at the rate of 3 for a nickel. At the end of the day their respective receipts were 75 cents and 50 cents, or $1.25 in all. The <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/2013\/05\/09\/apple-women-paradox\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,32],"tags":[49,50,42,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}