{"id":2235,"date":"2022-04-26T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2022-04-26T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:16:14","slug":"growing-garlic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/growing-garlic\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Garlic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben is on the allotment with his Mum. They would like to grow some garlic and are deciding how to plant the garlic cloves.<br \/>\nBen arranges the cloves into three equal rows and finds that he has one spare clove.<br \/>\nHow many cloves might he have had to start with?<br \/>\nHow do you know?<br \/>\n<img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRnSxzZI1a-d4ZwwZsKTc_yA85o6_A3JXXkhg&amp;usqp=CAU\" alt=\"the tricky matter of when to harvest garlic - A Way To Garden\" \/><br \/>\nBen plants cloves of garlic in two equal rows and has one clove left over. So he tries again.<br \/>\nHe plants cloves in three equal rows and has one left over. So he tries again.<br \/>\nHe plants cloves in four equal rows and has one left over. So he tries again.<br \/>\nHe plants cloves in five equal rows and has one left over. So he tries again.<br \/>\nHe plants cloves in six equal rows and still has one left over.<br \/>\nWe know that he has fewer than 100\u00a0garlic cloves. How many did he have?<br \/>\nHow do you know?<\/p>\n<p>How many cloves might he have had if there were more than 100?<\/p>\n<p>Problem from <a href=\"https:\/\/nrich.maths.org\/5579\">Enrich Math<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben is on the allotment with his Mum. They would like to grow some garlic and are deciding how to plant the garlic cloves. Ben arranges the cloves into three equal rows and finds that he has one spare clove. How many cloves might he have had to start with? How do you know? Ben &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/growing-garlic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Growing Garlic&#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":[35,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235"}],"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=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}