{"id":1187,"date":"2021-12-02T19:36:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T00:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/chapter\/2-8-the-mystery-x-puzzle\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T12:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:23:46","slug":"the-mystery-x-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/chapter\/the-mystery-x-puzzle\/","title":{"raw":"2.8 The Mystery X Puzzle","rendered":"2.8 The Mystery X Puzzle"},"content":{"raw":"The centre number of each square is found by using the order of operations on the numbers that surround it. The challenge is to solve for the variable [latex]X.[\/latex]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1186 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2021\/12\/Mystery-x-puzzle.jpg\" alt=\"Box 1: 21 is surrounded by 3, 5, 6. Box 2: 42 is surrounded by 11, 3, 9. Box 3: 64 is surrounded by 5, 12, X.\" width=\"505\" height=\"172\" \/>\r\n\r\nCan you solve for [latex]X[\/latex]? Can you find any other possible solution?\r\n\r\n<a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/back-matter\/answer-key-2-8\/\">Answer Key 2.8<\/a>","rendered":"<p>The centre number of each square is found by using the order of operations on the numbers that surround it. The challenge is to solve for the variable [latex]X.[\/latex]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1186 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2021\/12\/Mystery-x-puzzle.jpg\" alt=\"Box 1: 21 is surrounded by 3, 5, 6. Box 2: 42 is surrounded by 11, 3, 9. Box 3: 64 is surrounded by 5, 12, X.\" width=\"505\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2021\/12\/Mystery-x-puzzle.jpg 505w, https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2021\/12\/Mystery-x-puzzle-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2021\/12\/Mystery-x-puzzle-65x22.jpg 65w, https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2021\/12\/Mystery-x-puzzle-225x77.jpg 225w, https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2021\/12\/Mystery-x-puzzle-350x119.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can you solve for [latex]X[\/latex]? Can you find any other possible solution?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/back-matter\/answer-key-2-8\/\">Answer Key 2.8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":"cc-by-nc-sa"},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[56],"class_list":["post-1187","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","license-cc-by-nc-sa"],"part":1170,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1187\/revisions\/2079"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1170"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1187\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/intermediatealgebraberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}