{"id":806,"date":"2020-04-17T14:55:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2020-11-16T09:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T09:25:18","slug":"the-merchant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/riddles\/hard-riddles\/the-merchant\/","title":{"rendered":"The merchant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A merchant can place 8 large boxes or 10 small boxes into a carton for shipping.<br>In one shipment, he sent a total of 96 boxes.<br>If there are more large boxes than small boxes, how many cartons did he ship?<\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6601c45e1979d1048935894' value='6601c45e1979d1048935894'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6601c45e1979d1048935894' value='ANSWER'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6601c45e1979d1048935894' value='Hide answer'><button id='bg-showmore-action-6601c45e1979d1048935894' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-green-button bg-eye '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">ANSWER<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6601c45e1979d1048935894' ><\/p>\n<p>4 cartons with small boxes (4 cartons x 10 small boxes = 40 boxes)<br>7 cartons with large boxes (7 cartons * 8 large boxes = 56 boxes)<\/p>\n<p>11 cartons total.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Want more Hard riddles? Check out more here &#8211;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/riddles\/hard-riddles\/\">Hard riddles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A merchant can place 8 large boxes or 10 small boxes into a carton for shipping.In one shipment, he sent &#8230; <a title=\"The merchant\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/riddles\/hard-riddles\/the-merchant\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The merchant\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}