{"id":5,"date":"2010-02-20T16:03:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T08:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:14:29","slug":"pumpkin-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/pumpkin-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8\" title=\"A Pumpkin Plant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2010\/02\/pumpkin-plant.png\" alt=\"A Young Pumpkin Plant\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Young Pumpkin Plant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We have some pumpkin plants growing in our yard. I counted them at one point, and there were 24 plants. This inspired a little puzzle &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>If I have 24 pumpkin plants, and half of them grow a pumpkin, and half of those that grow a pumpkin grow another, and half of those that grow another grow yet another still &#8211; then how many pumpkins do I get in the end?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You can vary this puzzle &#8211; for example,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>if I have 25 plants, and three fifths grow a pumpkin, and three fifths of those grow another, how many pumpkins do I get?<\/li>\n<li>If I have 27 plants, and a third grow pumpkins, and a third of those grow another, and a third of those grow yet another, how many pumpkins do I get?<\/li>\n<li>If I have 27 plants, and two thirds grow a pumpkin, etc, how many pumpkins do I get?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have some pumpkin plants growing in our yard. I counted them at one point, and there were 24 plants. This inspired a little puzzle &#8211; If I have 24 pumpkin plants, and half of them grow a pumpkin, and half of those that grow a pumpkin grow another, and half of those that grow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/pumpkin-puzzle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pumpkin Puzzle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,11,10,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}