Friday, October 3, 2008

Measuring

An easy riddle Robert reminded me of during a midnight-ish snack at Yechon.

So you have two buckets, one measures 3 liters and one measures 5 liters. How can you use these two buckets to measure exactly 4 liters of water?
(You have infinite water supply)

2 comments:

  1. pour water into 3L bucket.
    pour the water in 3L bucket into 5L bucket.
    pour water into 3L bucket again.
    pour the water in 3L bucket into 5L bucket again.
    there should be 1L of water in 3L bucket.
    dump out water in 5L bucket.
    pour the water remaining in 3L bucket into 5L bucket.
    pour water into 3L bucket.
    pour the water in 3L bucket into 5L bucket.
    5L bucket now has 4L of water.

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  2. you could do the same thing with the water glass riddle u gave before

    so then u can just get half of the three and then half of the five and add them togehter

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