{"id":1657,"date":"2011-11-21T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2012-11-25T17:07:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T22:07:49","slug":"when-math-and-money-messes-with-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/general\/when-math-and-money-messes-with-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"When Math and Money Messes with your Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister hit me up with this interesting question, and I felt compelled to share it with you. I&#8217;m wondering how many of you will get the right response or end up with a headache.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You have no money, and while walking around the mall you see a shirt for $97.<br \/>\nYou borrow $50 from your mother, and another $50 from your father.<br \/>\n$50 + $50 = $100<\/p>\n<p>You buy the shirt for $97, and now have $3 left over.<br \/>\n$100 &#8211; $97 = $3<\/p>\n<p>You gave your mother $1, and your father $1, decreasing the amount you owe each to $49.<br \/>\n$49 + $49 = $98<\/p>\n<p>But you still have your $1 left over. Where did the other $1 disappear to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister hit me up with this interesting question, and I felt compelled to share it with you. I&#8217;m wondering how many of you will get the right response or end up with a headache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}