{"id":726,"date":"2004-11-14T13:07:38","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T13:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2004-11-14T13:07:38","modified_gmt":"2004-11-14T13:07:38","slug":"toilet_paper_ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Toilet Paper Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:faIMKN5l-2EJ:gallery.hd.org\/_exhibits\/toilets\/toilet-paper-in-supermarket-1-DHD.jpg\"><br \/>\nShopping today, I came across the following math problem:  Two toilet paper packages were &#8220;on sale&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>24 rolls for 6.54.  Each roll contains 199 sheets\n<li>12 Rolls for $8.59.  Each roll contains 1000 sheets.<\/ul>\n<p>  Which is the better deal? \ud83d\ude42 Which one had much larger floor space and inventory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping today, I came across the following math problem: Two toilet paper packages were &#8220;on sale&#8221;: 24 rolls for 6.54. Each roll contains 199 sheets 12 Rolls for $8.59. Each roll contains 1000 sheets. Which is the better deal? \ud83d\ude42 Which one had much larger floor space and inventory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}