{"id":182,"date":"2016-06-21T13:56:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T20:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2016-06-24T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T20:05:39","slug":"how-many-guppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/how-many-guppies\/","title":{"rendered":"How many guppies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/parade.com\/483176\/marilynvossavant\/how-many-guppies\/\" target=\"_blank\">From Marilyn Vos Savant&#8217;s column in Parade Magazine, June 19, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Say you have 200 fish in an aquarium, and 99 percent of them are guppies. You want to reduce the proportion of guppies to exactly 98 percent. How many should you remove?<br \/>\n\u2014 M.S., Winston-Salem, North Carolina<\/p>\n<p>Give it a try.\u00a0 The answer is surprising.<\/p>\n<p>In this tank of fish, 198 are guppies. If you remove two, they will still constitute almost 99 percent of the fish (196 guppies in a tank of 198 fish equals 98.9898\u2026 percent). Even removing 20 guppies won\u2019t help much more. Their proportion will still be 98.8888\u2026 percent. You would need to remove 100 guppies to drop their proportion to 98 percent (98 guppies in a tank of 100 fish).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Marilyn Vos Savant&#8217;s column in Parade Magazine, June 19, 2016 Say you have 200 fish in an aquarium, and 99 percent of them are guppies. You want to reduce the proportion of guppies to exactly 98 percent. How many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/how-many-guppies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}