{"id":132,"date":"2010-07-13T19:08:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathriddles.williams.edu\/?p=132"},"modified":"2025-01-27T09:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:41:31","slug":"pick-up-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/difficulty\/easy\/pick-up-sticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick Up Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are 15 sticks below.  Remove six sticks and be left with 10.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/files\/2010\/07\/pickupsticks11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-139\" title=\"pickupsticks(1)\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/files\/2010\/07\/pickupsticks11-300x93.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/files\/2010\/07\/pickupsticks11-300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/files\/2010\/07\/pickupsticks11.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are 25 sticks below.  Remove 10 of them and be left with three.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/files\/2010\/07\/pickupsticks21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-140\" title=\"pickupsticks(2)\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/files\/2010\/07\/pickupsticks21-300x56.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/files\/2010\/07\/pickupsticks21-300x56.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/files\/2010\/07\/pickupsticks21-500x94.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/files\/2010\/07\/pickupsticks21.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Communicated and solved by Nicole and Michelle Beaupre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 15 sticks below. Remove six sticks and be left with 10. There are 25 sticks below. Remove 10 of them and be left with three. Communicated and solved by Nicole and Michelle Beaupre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easy","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}