{"id":912,"date":"2014-11-10T09:29:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T01:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:11:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:11:55","slug":"movie-tickets-and-time-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/movie-tickets-and-time-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Tickets and Time Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[This is a back-issue of one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this site&#8217;s newsletters<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a puzzle for you to try &#8211; how creative can you get while solving it? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><em>My local cinema charges $16 for adults, $8 for kids. I arrive with my wife and two kids. In my wallet, I have $50, and two vouchers. The first voucher gives me 10% off the total price. The second voucher lets me buy four tickets for $11 each. Each voucher has a note, saying &#8220;may not be used in conjunction with other vouchers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><em> What&#8217;s the most money I could have left over for popcorn?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Think you&#8217;ve got the answer? Share your solution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152853230354645&amp;id=70173834644\">at my facebook page<\/a>. I&#8217;ll share the best answers I&#8217;ve seen with you all next week!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2092310\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><span class=\"make-relative  no-float\"><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=michaelhartleysw&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B0054OGQM8&#038;asins=B0054OGQM8&#038;linkId=VRCVCIT4QWG6AOFU&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perhaps it was a movie <i>about<\/i> a time machine?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another puzzle:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><em>Ten years ago, in 2004, you got a letter. The letter told you that your future self, from 2014, sent you a message via time machine. The catch? The message was just a single English word. That&#8217;s all your future self, from 2014, was allowed to send.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><em>Now, it&#8217;s 2014, you are standing in the offices of Temporal Telegrams, preparing to compose your message. One English word. Choose carefully!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><em>What single word will you send your past self, to have the maximum possible positive impact on your life?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This one is tougher, so I&#8217;ll give you two weeks before I share my solution &#8211; which will also show you why the Temporal Telegram puzzle is actually a math problem.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n<p>Michael Hartley<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\">Dr Mike&#8217;s Math\u00a0Games for Kids<\/a><br \/>\nMonday Morning Math<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This is a back-issue of one of this site&#8217;s newsletters] Here&#8217;s a puzzle for you to try &#8211; how creative can you get while solving it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[357,423,7,507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}