{"id":1060,"date":"2013-05-25T04:23:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T04:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2013-05-25T04:23:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T04:23:42","slug":"new-hotel-room-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/2013\/05\/25\/new-hotel-room-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW HOTEL ROOM PARADOX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">NEW HOTEL ROOM PARADOX<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/2013\/05\/25\/new-hotel-room-paradox\/new-hotel-room-paradox\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1061\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1061\" alt=\"NEW HOTEL ROOM PARADOX\" src=\"http:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/NEW-HOTEL-ROOM-PARADOX-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">A group of seven weary men once arrived at a small hotel<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">and asked for accommodations for the night, specifying that<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">they wanted separate rooms. The manager admitted that he<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">had only six rooms left, but thought he might be able to put<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">up his guests as they desired. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>HOW DID HE DID IT?<\/p>\n<p>ANSWER<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">He took the first man to the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">first room and asked one of the other men to stay there for a<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">few minutes. He then took the third man to the second room,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">the fourth man to the third room, the fifth man to the fourth<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">room, and the sixth man to the fifth room. Then he returned<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">to the first room, got the seventh man, and showed him to the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">sixth room. Everyone was thus nicely taken care of. Or was<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">he?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW HOTEL ROOM PARADOX A group of seven weary men once arrived at a small hotel and asked for accommodations for the night, specifying that they wanted separate rooms. The manager admitted that he had only six rooms left, but thought he might be able to put up his guests as they desired. HOW DID <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/2013\/05\/25\/new-hotel-room-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":[22,16,32],"tags":[3,4,5,53,54,49,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"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=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}