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Wine and Barrels (Posted on 2003-08-07) Difficulty: 1 of 5
A man is the owner of a winery who recently passed away. In his will, he left 21 barrels (seven of which are filled with wine, seven of which are half full, and seven of which are empty) to his three sons. However, the wine and barrels must be split so that each son has the same number of full barrels, the same number of half-full barrels, and the same number of empty barrels.( Note that there are no measuring devices handy).

How can the barrels and wine be evenly divided?

  Submitted by Ravi Raja    
Rating: 2.0769 (13 votes)
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The most efficient solution is to take two of the half-full barrels and dump each of them into another half-full barrel, resulting in two full barrels and two empty barrels.

This make, in all, nine full barrels, three half-full barrels, and nine empty barrels.
Each son gets three full barrels, one half-full barrel, and three empty barrels.

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  Subject Author Date
SolutionPuzzle SolutionK Sengupta2021-12-26 20:58:41
A solutionVincent2004-03-09 13:30:09
re: the easy solutionGamer2003-09-24 17:57:39
the easy solutionsteve2003-08-11 12:26:01
re: guessingGamer2003-08-10 21:41:09
guessingsupriya2003-08-10 15:09:28
Some ThoughtsSolution?gill2003-08-09 17:40:57
No Subjectnellie2003-08-09 12:55:01
solutionFreddy Grants2003-08-07 13:46:16
SolutionSolutionLewis2003-08-07 13:38:09
SolutionAnother SolutionGamer2003-08-07 12:14:48
SolutionSolutionDJ2003-08-07 10:56:09
SolutionSolutionAndrew Mitchell2003-08-07 08:51:18
My 2 cents worthJun2003-08-07 08:45:18
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