{"id":5303,"date":"2013-04-15T12:38:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T16:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:41:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:41:59","slug":"the-math-beast-challenge-problem-of-the-week-apr-15-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/the-math-beast-challenge-problem-of-the-week-apr-15-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Math Beast Challenge Problem of the Week &#8211; Apr 15, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/\/cdn.manhattanprep.com\/images\/gre\/gre_math_beast(1).png\" alt=\"Math Beast\" \/>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.<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Owners of condominiums in a certain community share annual maintenance costs in proportion to their condominium&#8217;s share of the total square footage for all community condominiums at the end of the year. In 2011, when total annual maintenance costs were $104,000, the share of these costs for the owner of a 1,000 square foot condominium was $832.\u00a0 In 2012, several new condominiums were added to the community, increasing total annual maintenance costs by $5,000 from the previous year and total development square footage by 3,600 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, what was the share of maintenance costs for the owner of the 1,000 square foot condominium?<\/p><\/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. Owners of condominiums in a certain community share annual maintenance costs in proportion to their condominium&#8217;s share of the total square [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[68],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5303","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\/5303","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=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6939,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions\/6939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}