{"id":1012,"date":"2020-05-07T16:02:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T16:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coltnesshsmaths\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2020-05-07T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T16:02:32","slug":"daily-puzzle-fifty-two-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coltnesshsmaths\/2020\/05\/07\/daily-puzzle-fifty-two-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Puzzle Fifty Two Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>26<\/p>\n<p>Let Holly\u2019s number be <em>x, <\/em>then <em>x<\/em><sup>2 <\/sup>\u2013 20<em>x <\/em>= 156<\/p>\n<p>Rearrange this to <em>x<\/em><sup>2 <\/sup>\u2013 20<em>x <\/em>\u2013 156 = 0 and solve by factorising<\/p>\n<p>(x + 6)(x \u2013 26) = 0 so x = -6 or\u00a0 x = 26, but since Holly is thinking of a positive integer, her number must be 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 Let Holly\u2019s number be x, then x2 \u2013 20x = 156 Rearrange this to x2 \u2013 20x \u2013 156 = 0 and solve by factorising (x + 6)(x \u2013 26) = 0 so x = -6 or\u00a0 x = 26, but since Holly is thinking of a positive integer, her number must be 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coltnesshsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coltnesshsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coltnesshsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coltnesshsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coltnesshsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coltnesshsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coltnesshsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coltnesshsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coltnesshsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coltnesshsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}