{"id":6577,"date":"2013-12-09T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:43:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:43:12","slug":"the-math-beast-challenge-problem-of-the-week-december-9-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/the-math-beast-challenge-problem-of-the-week-december-9-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Math Beast Challenge Problem of the Week &#8211; December 9, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Math Beast\" src=\"\/\/cdn.manhattanprep.com\/images\/gre\/gre_math_beast(1).png\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Each week, we post a new GRE 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<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">If\u00a0<em>x<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>y<\/em>\u00a0are integers such that\u00a0<em>x<\/em>\u00a0<\u00a0<em>y<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>xy<\/em>\u00a0= 4, which of the following could be the value of 2<em>x<\/em>\u00a0+ 4<em>y<\/em>?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong> To see this week&#8217;s answer choices and to submit your pick, visit our\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/challenge_thisweek.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Challenge Problem<\/a>\u00a0page.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, we post a new GRE 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. If\u00a0x\u00a0and\u00a0y\u00a0are integers such that\u00a0x\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[68,133,161,271],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenge-problems","tag-challenge-problem","tag-gre","tag-gre-quant","tag-quant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577","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\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6817,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}