{"id":2087,"date":"2022-01-12T10:48:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2022-02-01T15:28:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T23:28:53","slug":"goody-bag-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/goody-bag-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Goody Bag Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a week you will be hosting your birthday party. Mom has come home with all<br \/>\nthe items to make up the goody bags. You have invited four (4) friends to your<br \/>\nparty. You need to divide the loot into 5 goody bags, one for each of your friends,<br \/>\nand one for yourself. Mom, however, did not purchase five of each item.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Your task is to figure out how to divide the items into the five goody bags so that each<br \/>\nperson gets a goody bag that is fair. Your Mom has told you that when it is time to<br \/>\ngive out the goody bags she is going to hand out the bags randomly. This means<br \/>\nthat you do not know which bag you will get.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2022\/01\/Goody-bag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2088 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2022\/01\/Goody-bag-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2022\/01\/Goody-bag-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2022\/01\/Goody-bag.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSome things to think about:<br \/>\nWhat is fair?<br \/>\nHow will you justify the fairness of each goody bag to your friends?<br \/>\nWhen you have finished sorting the items for each goody bag, you must explain how you chose to sort the items for each goody bag and why this is fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a week you will be hosting your birthday party. Mom has come home with all the items to make up the goody bags. You have invited four (4) friends to your party. You need to divide the loot into 5 goody bags, one for each of your friends, and one for yourself. Mom, however, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/goody-bag-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goody Bag Problem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}