You have an empty 3-liter container, a full 5-liter container with 50 degrees water, and a full 6-liter container with 90 degrees water.

Can you manage to get some 72 degrees water?

(In reply to could it be...? by Charlie)

This sounds like the old chestnut about a broken clock being right on time twice a day; just wait until the time is whatever the clock shows... anyway, the problem doesn't speak about a termometer, so I guess you'll have to pour and mix. (And, by the way, if it's Celsius degrees, you wouldn't want to be at 72 degrees!)

Posted by e.g. on 2004-09-29 09:38:45