{"id":24892,"date":"2026-10-26T19:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=24892"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:24:19","slug":"solve-the-riddle-a-man-steals-100-from-a-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=24892","title":{"rendered":"Solve the Riddle: A Man Steals 100$ From a Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thief steals $100, then makes the shop owner hand over even more. He returns the stolen bill to buy $70 in goods and pockets $30 in change, leaving a deceptively simple question behind. Before you add everything together, look closely at what actually leaves the store, because one very tempting calculation hides the crucial part of the tru\u2026 Continues\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The clearest way to check the answer is to consider the thief\u2019s haul: $70 in merchandise plus $30 in cash. He leaves with $100 in value that belonged to the business. Counting the original stolen bill on top of those items would count the same loss twice. The transaction creates a distraction, but the final balance tells the story: the owner is out exactly $100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thief steals $100, then makes the shop owner hand over even more. He returns the stolen bill to buy $70 in goods and pockets $30 in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24894,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892\/revisions\/24894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}