{"id":2936,"date":"2012-01-17T13:43:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:45:17","slug":"the-math-beast-challenge-problem-of-the-week-january-16th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/the-math-beast-challenge-problem-of-the-week-january-16th-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Math Beast Challenge Problem of the Week &#8211; January 16th, 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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/cdn.manhattanprep.com\/images\/gre\/gre\/challenge\/20120111\/give-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"34\" \/><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 427px;height: 53px\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Quantity A<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\" width=\"50\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Quantity B<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><em>x<\/em> + 5<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">(<em>x<\/em> \u201c 2)<sup>2<\/sup><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>See the answer 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. Quantity A Quantity B x + 5 (x \u201c 2)2<\/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":[68,271],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenge-problems","tag-challenge-problem","tag-quant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936","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=2936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7179,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions\/7179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}