{"id":2488,"date":"2012-02-21T12:50:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T17:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangmat.com\/blog\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2019-09-05T16:16:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:16:47","slug":"challenge-problem-showdown-february-21st-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/blog\/challenge-problem-showdown-february-21st-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Problem Showdown &#8211; February 21st, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We invite you to test your GMAT knowledge for a chance to win! Each week, we will post a new Challenge Problem for you to attempt. If you submit the correct answer, you will be entered into that week&#8217;s drawing for a free Manhattan GMAT Prep item. Tell your friends to get out their scrap paper and start solving!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two integers between 1 and 100, inclusive, each randomly and independently chosen, are either added or multiplied, with an equal chance of either operation. What is the probability that the result is even?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To see the answer choices, and to submit your answer, visit our <a href=\"\/challenge_thisweek.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Challenge Problem Showdown<\/a> page on our site.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss this week&#8217;s problem with like-minded GMAT takers on <a href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Manhattan-GMAT\/39761815456\" target=\"_blank\">our Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The weekly winner, drawn from among all the correct submissions, will receive One Year of Access to our <a href=\"\/storeitemshow.cfm?ItemID=61&#038;catid=4\" target=\"_blank\">Challenge Problem Archive<\/a>, AND the <a href=\"\/storeitemshow.cfm?ItemID=336&#038;catid=4\" target=\"_blank\">GMAT Navigator<\/a>, AND Our <a href=\"\/storeitemshow.cfm?ItemID=81&#038;catid=4\" target=\"_blank\">Six Computer Adaptive Tests<\/a> ($92 value).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We invite you to test your GMAT knowledge for a chance to win! Each week, we will post a new Challenge Problem for you to attempt. If you submit the correct answer, you will be entered into that week&#8217;s drawing for a free Manhattan GMAT Prep item. Tell your friends to get out their scrap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenge-problem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17826,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/17826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}