You have a barrel of water, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?
Riddle me this
Published on Feb 22nd, 2006 by Jason3 comments
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Anonymous says:
There’s more than one way of doing this, but here’s one.
Fill the 5gal container and dump it into the 3gal, you’re left with 2gal in the 5 gal. Pour the 2gal into the 3gal container. Fill the 5gal again and top off the 3gal leaving 4gal in the 5gal container. Fill the 3gal container using that 4gal, and you’re left with 1gal in the 5gal container.
Yesssssssssss *arm pump*
Feb 22, 2006, 12:28 amAnonymous says:
Ok, so it would be a lot faster to fill the 5gal with the 3gal, repeat that which would leave 1gal in the 3gal container. I made it too complicated the first time.
Feb 22, 2006, 12:31 amJughead says:
Speechless… out of the box it answers and confirms itself!
Score!
Feb 22, 2006, 3:56 am