{"id":2884,"date":"2012-01-09T12:53:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:49:03","slug":"the-math-beast-challenge-problem-of-the-week-january-9th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/the-math-beast-challenge-problem-of-the-week-january-9th-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Math Beast Challenge Problem of the Week &#8211; January 9th, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/cdn.manhattanprep.com\/images\/gre\/gre_math_beast(1).png\" alt=\"Math Beast\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Each week, we 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 two free Manhattan Prep GRE Strategy Guides.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Per Serving of:<\/td>\n<td>Calories<\/td>\n<td>Cost<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Snack A<\/td>\n<td>200<\/td>\n<td>$1.70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Snack B<\/td>\n<td>350<\/td>\n<td>$0.60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Choosing from the snacks in the table above, a group consumes 3250 calories of snacks that cost a total of $11.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Quantity A<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"50\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"50\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"50\"><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Quantity B<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The number of servings of Snack A the group consumed<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>See the answers choices and submit your pick over on our <a href=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/challenge_thisweek.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Challenge Problem<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, we 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 two free Manhattan Prep GRE Strategy Guides. Per Serving of: Calories Cost Snack A 200 $1.70 Snack B 350 $0.60 Choosing from the snacks in the table above, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[68],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenge-problems","tag-challenge-problem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7186,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/7186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}