{"id":729,"date":"2015-03-16T18:04:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T18:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=729"},"modified":"2015-03-16T18:04:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T18:04:23","slug":"loudoun-math-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Loudoun math tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-730\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1022-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1022-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1022-1024x917.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1022-624x559.jpg 624w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1022.jpg 1413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suppose that two middle schools and an elementary school hosted 600 students who were competing in a math tournament on five-member teams. One middle school hosted 12 fewer teams than did the other two schools. How many students competed at the elementary school?<\/p>\n<p>That problem would be a breeze for many of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/students-put-heads-together-in-second-annual-loudoun-county-math-tourney\/2015\/03\/13\/9a10cf70-c8e3-11e4-aa1a-86135599fb0f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">students who took part in the second annual Loudoun County Regional Math Tournament<\/a> on March 7.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, March 15, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose that two middle schools and an elementary school hosted 600 students who were competing in a math tournament on five-member teams. One middle school hosted 12 fewer teams than did the other two schools. How many students competed at the elementary school? That problem would be a breeze for many of the students who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=729\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loudoun math tournament&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107,3,6],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-education","tag-loudoun-county","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}