{"id":5496,"date":"1999-07-19T02:06:58","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-2-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:28","slug":"1-2-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-2-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.2.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.2<\/strong>.  A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment<br \/>\nbuilding.  Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves<br \/>\nthe building.  In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is<br \/>\nsomeone else in the elevator &#8212; or if it was raining that day &#8212; he goes<br \/>\nback to his floor directly.  However, if there is nobody else in the<br \/>\nelevator and it hasn&#8217;t rained, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two<br \/>\nflights of stairs to his room.  (MH, from <cite>How Come?<\/cite>)<\/p>\n<p>1.2 answer:  The man is a midget.  He can&#8217;t reach the upper elevator<br \/>\nbuttons, but he can ask people to push them for him.  He can also push them<br \/>\nwith his umbrella.  I&#8217;ve usually heard this stated with more details: &#8220;Every<br \/>\nmorning he wakes up, gets dressed, eats, goes to the elevator&#8230;&#8221;  In the<br \/>\nother direction, for a shorter problem statement, leave out the &#8220;someone<br \/>\nelse in the elevator&#8221; and &#8220;if it was raining&#8221; parts, and just say on his<br \/>\nreturn to the building he always goes to the tenth floor.  Ron Carter<br \/>\nsuggests a nice red herring: the man lives on the 13th floor of the<br \/>\nbuilding.<\/p>\n<p>1.2a.  Variant: Emily regularly visits the twelfth floor of an apartment<br \/>\nbuilding by going to the tenth floor and walking up two flights of stairs.<br \/>\nLast year she only took the elevator to the ninth floor.  (<cite>Math for<br \/>\nGirls<\/cite>)<\/p>\n<p>1.2a answer:  Emily is a child; she can only reach the tenth-floor<br \/>\nbutton, and last year she could only reach the ninth-floor button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.2. A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator &#8212; or if it was raining that day &#8212; he goes back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5484,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5496","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15756,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5496\/revisions\/15756"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}