{"id":4641,"date":"2012-11-21T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T01:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2016-05-21T06:04:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T14:04:30","slug":"firecracker-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/firecracker-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Firecracker Magazine – A Sheep, A Wolf, And A Bag of Grain Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amelia was the first child to answer the Firecracker Magazine<\/a> math puzzle correctly, so they will post her solution in the December issue of Firecracker! \u00a0Good job!<\/p>\n

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Firecracker Magazine, Dec 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Amelia’s solution: “First you take the sheep across. \u00a0Then you take the wolf across, and on your way back you take the sheep. \u00a0Afterwards, you take the grain across and finally you bring\u00a0the sheep.”<\/p>\n

“From: Ella Levine
\nSent: 11\/20\/2012 3:29 PM
\nTo: –
\nSubject: Your solution is correct!<\/p>\n

Dear Amelia:<\/p>\n

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You were the first person who submitted the correct solution to the math puzzle from the last issue of the Firecracker Forum. We are going to publish your solution in our December edition. If you would also like us to place your photo next to it, please email it it to us. The file has to be at least 800K.<\/p>\n

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Best regards,<\/div>\n

—<\/p>\n

The Firecracker Forum Team”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amelia was the first child to answer the Firecracker Magazine math puzzle correctly, so they will post her solution in the December issue of Firecracker! \u00a0Good job! Amelia’s solution: “First you take the sheep across. \u00a0Then you take the wolf across, and on your way back you take the sheep. \u00a0Afterwards, you take the grain … Continue reading Firecracker Magazine – A Sheep, A Wolf, And A Bag of Grain Puzzle<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,8],"tags":[138,238],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-things-math","category-misc","tag-math","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6895,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions\/6895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}