{"id":168,"date":"2010-07-13T19:28:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T19:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathriddles.williams.edu\/?p=168"},"modified":"2025-01-27T09:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:41:31","slug":"selling-apples-makes-you-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/articles\/selling-apples-makes-you-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Apples Makes You Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I have 60 apples, and I would like to sell 30 in one spot at 3 apples for $1.00 = 3\/1.00 and in another spot,the other 30 at 2 apples for $1.00 = 2\/1.00. I&#8217;d make $10.00 in the first spot and $15.00 in the second one, right? So that would be 25 dollars total earned.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if I just forget about selling in two different spots, and I choose to sell my apples at 5 apples for $2.00 = 5\/2.00 , why in the world would I get $24.00?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I have 60 apples, and I would like to sell 30 in one spot at 3 apples for $1.00 = 3\/1.00 and in another spot,the other 30 at 2 apples for $1.00 = 2\/1.00. I&#8217;d make $10.00 in the first spot and $15.00 in the second one, right? So that would be 25 dollars&hellip;<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","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=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}