{"id":878,"date":"2013-01-20T07:41:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T04:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/?page_id=878"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:31:16","slug":"puzzler-6-salad-dressing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/myp2-3-science\/term-1-puzzlers\/puzzler-6-salad-dressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzler #6. Salad Dressing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jill and Jack went out for a picnic.&nbsp; \u201cI hope you remembered to bring the oil and vinegar for the salad,\u201d said Jack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI certainly did,\u201d replied Jill, \u201cand to save myself having to carry two bottles I put the oil and vinegar in the same bottle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat wasn\u2019t very clever,\u201d said Jack, \u201cbecause, as you know, I like a lot of oil and very little vinegar, but you like a lot of vinegar and hardly any oil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jill&nbsp;sighed, and then proceeded to pour, from the single bottle, exactly the right proportions of oil and vinegar that each of them wanted. How did she do it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concepts involved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Density, mixing (miscibility)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill and Jack went out for a picnic.&nbsp; \u201cI hope you remembered to bring the oil and vinegar for the salad,\u201d said Jack. \u201cI certainly did,\u201d replied Jill, \u201cand to save myself having to carry two bottles I put the oil and vinegar in the same bottle.\u201d \u201cThat wasn\u2019t very clever,\u201d said Jack, \u201cbecause, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2523,"parent":860,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-878","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Y7Kk-ea","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/878\/revisions\/4150"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}