{"id":5520,"date":"1999-07-19T02:07:25","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-41-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:37","slug":"1-41-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-41-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.41.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.41<\/strong>.  A man enters the elevator of a high rise<br \/>\napartment building, takes off one glove, and pushes the button for the tenth<br \/>\nfloor.  The next day, the same man enters the elevator, <em>puts on<\/em> one<br \/>\nglove, and pushes the button for the tenth floor. (RA original)<\/p>\n<p>1.41 answer:  The man is blind.  His first time in the elevator, he&#8217;s<br \/>\nwearing gloves; the elevator uses buttons that work by electrical conduction<br \/>\nthrough the skin; they light up at the slightest touch, but not through a<br \/>\nglove.  The man thus has to remove a glove to get the button to work.  But<br \/>\nhe discovers that first day that as he runs his ungloved hand over the<br \/>\nbuttons to find the tenth floor, all the buttons are activated, and the<br \/>\nelevator stops at all the floors.  So from then on, he carries a glove with<br \/>\nhim; he puts it on when he enters the elevator, finds the right button with<br \/>\nhis gloved hand, then uses his ungloved hand to press the tenth-floor<br \/>\nbutton.  (Note that even if the buttons are labeled in Braille, it&#8217;s hard to<br \/>\navoid brushing against a button and sending the elevator to the wrong<br \/>\nfloor.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.41. A man enters the elevator of a high rise apartment building, takes off one glove, and pushes the button for the tenth floor. The next day, the same man enters the elevator, puts on one glove, and pushes the button for the tenth floor. (RA original) 1.41 answer: The man is blind. His first [&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-5520","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5520","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=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15780,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5520\/revisions\/15780"}],"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=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}